Does D have too many features?

[SomeDude]

On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 21:05:12 UTC, q66 wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 20:50:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 09:22:59PM +0200, q66 wrote:
>> [...]
>>> - AAs integrated in the language; you barely ever use AA 
>>> literals and
>>> having them purely in Phobos would help get rid of the 
>>> runtime fat, as
>>> well as better implementations
>>
>> On the contrary, AA's are a major reason I started programming 
>> in D. In
>> this day and age, it's simply inexcusable to *not* have some 
>> kind of
>> hash type available by default.
>>
>
> Besides AA literals, library can handle this JUST FINE.
>

Yeah, but core language AA are so useful it would be a MAJOR 
mistake to remove them. In Python too, you could put the AA in 
the libraries. Yet everybody uses the AA that are in the language.

Where I DO agree with you is, Phobos should be a two level 
library, i.e a minimalistic library, with about the same feature 
set as the standard C library + multithreading, and a superset 
with the full range of features (ranges, algorithms, etc). I've 
already advocated it somewhere else.