D as A Better C?

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On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 19:43:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The subset would disallow use of any features that rely on:
>
> 1. moduleinfo
> 2. exception handling
> 3. gc
> 4. Object
>
> I've used such a subset before when bringing D up on a new 
> platform, as the new platform didn't have a working phobos.
>
> What do you think?
So may I ask, what is official decision on the subject? Quite a 
lot of people were begging for it for a long time. Obviously I'd 
like to have this feature in D because it would finally allow 
game, embedded, system (and operating system) developers to use 
good, modern and beautiful language for their needs. As for me 
I've been waiting for this for a long time. Hacking on compiler 
and phobos in order to make it generate stdlib-indepentent code 
may be interesting from time to time, but keeping such kind of 
project up-to-date with each new version of the compiler can be 
quite hard. Supporting a subset of D language features suitable 
for system/embedded programming and porting seems to be the best 
decision in this case.