• Ziyaad (29/29) Feb 19 Hi everyone.
• Kapendev (9/18) Feb 19 The `-betterC` flag just removes the D runtime . Being able to
• Ziyaad (2/21) Feb 20 Thanks for the reply

Ziyaad <zsorg34 gmail.com> writes:

Hi everyone.
My name is ziyaad.
I am new to dlang forum.
So basically I made this thread for some questions and advice 
from you guys.
So from beginning let's start
I am designing a language named zinc which will be memory safe 
similar to rust but simpler than it.
I have created 8 rules of memory safety which I will discuss if I 
got sometime.
So basically in the beginning I was thinking of using zig as 
backend for zinc because it offered lightweight compilier and 
also cross compilation and good heap things.
And in some way through internet I came across ldc which was 
second option for most lightweight compilier and somedays later I 
came to know even defer for first time was made in d and more 
research of d found that d is powerhouse of programming languages.
But soon I came to know that d has a gc and I mistakenly thought 
that d only have gc and my choice was still zig as backend.
But few days earlier I came across D's betterc which was the 
thing I wanted but it was not over,I found the hidden power of d 
that it is only language which can directly use cpp libs without 
needing extern c which killed me.
And now I decided to use d as backend for zinc,and D's scope for 
doing RAII work.
I have few questions does I am thinking something wrong and some 
features of d will be not working in betterc mode also rather 
than CTFE & scope what are more D's powerful features that I 
don't know please list me about them

Kapendev <alexandroskapretsos gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 13:50:43 UTC, Ziyaad wrote:
 But soon I came to know that d has a gc and I mistakenly 
 thought that d only have gc and my choice was still zig as 
 backend.
 But few days earlier I came across D's betterc which was the 
 thing I wanted but it was not over,I found the hidden power...

 I have few questions does I am thinking something wrong and 
 some features of d will be not working in betterc mode also 
 rather than CTFE & scope what are more D's powerful features 
 that I don't know please list me about them

The `-betterC` flag just removes the D runtime . Being able to 
avoid the GC is something you can do with or without it. So keep 
that in mind if you decide to actually use it. It's like going to 
Zig or Odin and removing their standard libraries.

The normal way to avoid the GC in D is to use things like the 
` nogc nothrow` attributes or the `-vgc` flag. The first is more 
strict and the second depends on you checking.

Check some projects that do avoid the GC. NuMem, NuLib, Joka, ...

Ziyaad <zsorg34 gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 17:11:15 UTC, Kapendev wrote:
 On Thursday, 19 February 2026 at 13:50:43 UTC, Ziyaad wrote:
 But soon I came to know that d has a gc and I mistakenly 
 thought that d only have gc and my choice was still zig as 
 backend.
 But few days earlier I came across D's betterc which was the 
 thing I wanted but it was not over,I found the hidden power...

 I have few questions does I am thinking something wrong and 
 some features of d will be not working in betterc mode also 
 rather than CTFE & scope what are more D's powerful features 
 that I don't know please list me about them

 The `-betterC` flag just removes the D runtime . Being able to 
 avoid the GC is something you can do with or without it. So 
 keep that in mind if you decide to actually use it. It's like 
 going to Zig or Odin and removing their standard libraries.

 The normal way to avoid the GC in D is to use things like the 
 ` nogc nothrow` attributes or the `-vgc` flag. The first is 
 more strict and the second depends on you checking.

 Check some projects that do avoid the GC. NuMem, NuLib, Joka, 
 ...

Thanks for the reply