Does D have too many features?

[SomeDude]

On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 08:13:53 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
> There will still be sugar in the compiler so they appear to be 
> builtins.
> When the switch happens, I'm sure it'll be transparent - 
> average users
> probably won't even notice. It's just that "behind the scenes" 
> their
> implementation will move from DMD to Druntime.

Hmmm, sounds nice, but bolting the language with the standard 
library is very risky (and a rather bad idea imho). Unless there 
is a very lightweight minimalistic core for Phobos (something 
which I advocate), you bolt a heavyweight library to your 
language, and that's not good.

I'd rather keep the integrated the AAs, which are fine for most 
applications, and have templated AAs in the library for heavier 
use. Even though it may seem redundant, it's just as redundant as 
having arrays in the core language and std.array. Noone would 
want to remove arrays from the core language, right ?