[eco]

You can use D without using the GC. I'm not sure why this myth keeps coming up. It's always supported manual memory management. You have to sacrifice some language features that aren't even available in C++ and some parts of the standard library use the GC but that is easy to avoid with yesterday's 2.066 release and the @nogc attribute. 2.067 should also have a lot of the standard library switched to using lazy algorithms where possible which means the caller gets to determine the allocation strategy (and can often avoid allocation entirely).

void main() @nogc { /* ... */ } // this program doesn't use the GC