Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

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On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 06:36:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Not sure what you mean.
>
> 1. It is more time consuming to write an analysis engine that 
> can cover convoluted machinery than simple machinery.
>
> 2. It it more difficult to extend complex machinery than simple 
> machinery.
>
> 3. It is more work to figure out adequate simple machinery to 
> describe complex machinery, than just keeping things simple 
> from the start.
>
> Not very surprising that experienced language designers try to 
> keep the core language as simple as possible?

You can lower D to Assembler and analyze that. Assembler is 
simple, isn't it?