[WalterBright]

D in "betterC" mode does not have GC, classes, exceptions, or RTTI. Nor does it need the D (or C) runtime library.

(It does have RAII without using exceptions.)

[x0re4x]

Thank you for clarification. I was looking at https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/betterC.html, https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html is a better description.