On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 01:08:31 UTC, Meta wrote:
No. The only part you may have had in ushering in @nogc is putting the idea out there (although I'm pretty sure Manu and Bearophile were advocating it long before that). @nogc was brought about because Johannes Pfau had the initiative to implement the framework for it and push it through. Otherwise we would still just be talking about it as a nice idea, and you would be bringing it up for the nth time with absolutely no benefit to anyone.
No. This isn't about the idea of "@nogc" or "better C", Walter did those on his own. It was about convincing Walter that enough people found the current situation not very useful for a particular type of programming. It was about having many viewpoints of how the GC situation was keeping D back. It was a very long and heated thread with many people commenting on what they needed to make better use of D.
Changes in D come from significant _vocal_ end user pressure. That is the historical trend. And that trend is very clear.
