Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 10:18:29 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote:
> Rust has a OS being written right now. Does D has ? Anyone ever 
> wanted to use D to write a OS kernel, I doubt it.

Yes, a group started on it,  but I don't think it reached 
completion. Anyway, you see traces of interest around the 
internet, e.g. http://wiki.osdev.org/D_Bare_Bones

But the argument is fair, as long as Walter and Andrei are trying 
to position D as an alternative to C and C++. Then D should be 
evaluated on those terms.

However, Rust won't fare well in a head-to-head comparison 
either, because of the issues with back-pointers.