What would a minimal subset of D look like?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Saturday, 22 June 2019 at 06:55:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> I am wondering, what would a minimal subset of D look like?  
> Something that would make the syntax/semantics look simple to a 
> newbie wanting to do embedded programming, yet be useful.  
> Let's assume that we are already limited to the better-C subset.
>
> What are the "must have" features?  I assume that "static if" 
> ranks high for most D users, but what else?

I'd assume a D successor would be JIT'ed with a big runtime, with 
types as firstt-class values, erasing the difference between 
compile-time and runtime.
In short, a bit like a typed LISP.