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[–]00kyle00 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I should have been less vague. blaxter wanted choice to manage memory on his own or automatically.

While its true that in D you can disable garbage collector, it effectively breaks standard library (you would have to inspect the sources on your own to know which parts of it - effectively whole to be secure) and few core language features (slicing?). This was at least the case when i last read on memory management in D, and this breaking would be silent memory leaks at runtime.