why Rust when there is D?

[bearophile]

sybrandy:

> 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 have read about not-C languages designed for embedded CPUs that have syntax&semantic to do this accurately. When your ROM/EEPROM/flash/etc is quite limited, you want to use all its bytes accurately.

Bye,
bearophile