The consequences of betterC are listed out here. https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html#consequences https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html#consequences Notice that

The consequences of betterC are listed out here. https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html#consequences https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html#consequences Notice that betterC does not exclude templates or destructors, so you could still use c++-style containers based around RAII, etc. The argument against it is a smaller ecosystem and you’d end up having to roll your own containers etc.