A betterC base

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How difficult would it be for D at this point to move towards a 
pay for what you use system that out of the box is betterC and 
requires the garbage collector to be explicitly imported?

It feels like D has not overcome at least two major issues in the 
public mind, the built-in GC and, more ludicrously, the D1 
library split. Would there not be significant value in making 
this a D3 transition? As non-breaking as possible but moving the 
run time elements into libraries and potentially taking the 
opportunity to invert the defaults for things like safe and pure.

The story of this D3 transition to the public would then address 
the 'issues' head on, creating an easily conveyable story that 
these have been resolved. This appears to be the level on which a 
lot of language adoption works, at least between hearing about 
and trying a language. At the moment it's painful to see the 
endless criticisms of the GC and library split crop up whenever D 
is discussed. D is progressing technically but needs a 'story'.