Comment by sfpotter

And in D, there's nothing stopping from either using or not using the GC. One of the key features of D is that it's possible to mix and match different memory management strategies. Maybe I have a low level computational kernel written C-style with memory management, and then for scripting I have a quick and dirty implementation of Scheme also written in D but using the GC. Perfectly fine for those two things to co-exist in the same codebase, and in fact having them coexist like that is useful.