On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 19:43:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
The idea is to be able to use a subset of D that does not require any of druntime or phobos - it can be linked merely with the C standard library. To that end, there'd be a compiler switch (-betterC) which would enforce the subset.
I think it should be something acceptable for mainline, but should be the pursuit of those who are going to use it to implement it (unless other things finished).
I can not speak to the usefulness of this as I don't see myself as a user, but it sounds like something which will be desired by many (but I expect their to be other blockades preventing it from being a major growth to D).
