On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 21:56:58 UTC, mw wrote:
I think this flexibility to mix GC & manual memory management is very unique in D. Actually I'm not sure if it can be done in other languages at all.
It sure can. Most AOT languages that provide GC also provide C-interfaces and manual memory management. C++ also had the Boehm-collector since the 90s. Chrome uses Oilpan, a library-style GC with write barriers and incremental collection.
