I love to see someone prove D as a Better C by porting the "small" sqlite 124K line of C code to D and run some benchmark/test code against it.

I used to work on OO database engine that handles billions of records.

I end up rewriting/overloading my own new/delete and redesign everything how data is load/store around it. Shorten the open/close document time from hours to seconds for large documents.

Basically, one can easily mmap billions of records directly into data structures accessible by C API easily in a few ms. One can dispose billions of records also in a few ms. I saw similar design patterns from the sqlite code base.

Language with memory safety (GC) design in mind won't allow anything like that as far as I know.

I love to see some D experts prove me wrong.