Status of @nogc with the runtime

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On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 12:18:28 UTC, Peter Campbell 
wrote:
> Hi everyone, it's been almost a year since I used D but I was 
> wanted to get back into it. I was checking the 2017 vision 
> pages and was wondering why there hasn't been a 2018H1 vision 
> page but also what the current status of being able to use D 
> without a garbage collector is?
>
> It was noted in the H1 and H2 pages for 2017 but looking 
> through the compiler changelog doesn't indicate that we're 
> there yet? https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2017H2
>
> Thanks.

The garbage collector in druntime is now lazily initialized on 
the first use:

https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2057

(in master since a few days)