This completely misses the point of my original comment. A C programmer that wants to continue to use their knowledge and existing code will be very happy using D. You're describing someone that wants to use D without the garbage collector. Those are two completely different cases.

I've been happily using D for a better experience with C code for more than a decade. First, because it's extremely rare to need to completely avoid the GC for everything in your program. Second, because everything you want and need from C is available, but you can use it from a more convenient language. Sure, exceptions won't work if you're avoiding the GC (which doesn't have anything to do with C), but so what. It's not like C programmers are currently using exceptions. You can continue to use whatever mechanism you're using now.

> Sure, exceptions won't work if you're avoiding the GC (which doesn't have anything to do with C), but so what. It's not like C programmers are currently using exceptions.

that works if your main use case for d is as a top-level wrapper program that is basically calling a bunch of c libraries. if you want to use d libraries you will run into ones that need the gc pretty quickly.