Thanks. My root comment mentioned that it was not really the features of C that I depended on, but the GCC specific features. I'm interested in using D now as

Thanks. My root comment mentioned that it was not really the features of C that I depended on, but the GCC specific features. I'm interested in using D now as sibling comment mentions that I can use some of these features in gcd, but I'm not yet sure how much benefit I'd get over using C by using a subset of the D features which are compatible with the constraints of my VM.