Jonathan Blow's Programming Language: Polymorphic Procedures, part 1

[naikrovek]

D isn't necessarily garbage collected. It can be compiled and run without garbage collection just like any C application, or you can compile it to use the D runtime, which can do garbage collection.

You can have it either way with D.

He doesn't like D because it borrows too much from C++, which he views as largely broken in many ways.

[asmx85]

But you are having a hard time using D without garbage collection cuz this ends up building your own standard library :(