Does D have too many features?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 28-04-2012 23:18, SomeDude wrote:
> 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.

Let's get a standard package manager that we either advocate on 
dlang.org or include in the releases before we start talking about 
reducing the amount of modules in Phobos.

-- 
- Alex