D without a GC (Was: Advocacy (Was: Who here actually uses D?))

[Walter Bright]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> How much of D can you really use without Phobos? I imagine there'd be no 
> problem in using it as a better C, but there isn't much appeal to that,

I don't agree there's not much appeal to that. D has quite a bit that makes 
C-style code much easier and more robust, such as the module system. C doesn't 
even have thread local storage!


> compared to C++/STL/Boost. A practical No-GC D solution would probably 
> have to include a standard library that works without a GC.

D can use the minimal library used by C in kernel dev.