why Rust when there is D?

[Johann MacDonagh]

sybrandy Wrote:

> On 11/30/2010 07:18 AM, bearophile wrote:
> > sclytrack:
> >
> >> Yeah, why not D?
> >
> > Because Rust has typestates :-) It's an interesting language feature.
> >
> > Bye,
> > bearophile
> 
> Another feature that may be important to them is the ability to manually 
> arrange the data/program (don't recall which exactly) in memory.  I know 
> one of the things they were experimenting with to speed up the browser 
> was changing how the loader loaded the various libraries.  Perhaps this 
> is taking it a step further to ensure their products load as fast as 
> possible.
> 
> Casey

Can't this be done with GDC using linker scripts?