If I recall correctly, D allows you to disable garbage collection and do your own memory management, and it does give the programmer a lot of power over how mem

If I recall correctly, D allows you to disable garbage collection and do your own memory management, and it does give the programmer a lot of power over how memory is managed, up to and including literally using C's malloc and free. I think it's more accurate to say that D has optional, on-by-default garbage collection. I still wouldn't write a kernel in it, and I can't agree more about D 2.0, but it's a bit misleading to say that D "requires" garbage collection.