[Kukumber]

That's 100% bullshit

You can ignore the GC or totally suppress it with @nogc or even not even link it with -betterC flag

Having the GC optional is nice since you no longer need to use a scripting language to do your cli tools or utilities, it's there and well integrated

If you are a proper developer who care about speed and fast code, you'll want to develop your own STL anyways, just like C/C++ are already doing, just like Rust people are also doing to get faster compile speed, D gives C/C++ interop as well as full C11 compiler

So it's the perfect evolution of C, since it can compile and consume its ecosystem

You can even consume python and rust libraries, wgpu works great with D