Does D have too many features?

[Era Scarecrow]

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:
>> - Phobos is too fat - it needs to shrink to just a few core 
>> modules,
>> others being distributed via some system like CPAN for Perl
>
> Um... that's what a *library* is supposed to be: a large 
> collection of
> useful stuff from which you can pick the few that you need 
> right now.

  And the STL and libc isn't big? Size is only intimidating if you 
don't know what your looking for. Having to scour in std.ascii, 
then std.utf, then std.array or other locations when your looking 
for something can get a little annoying. But it's a learning 
curve, once you know it you tend to find the functions and 
information fairly quickly.

  More likely a good tutorial through the library would alleviate 
some of that, or just the parts that are more confusing. One part 
for example involving conversion for unicode, I still have no 
idea how to convert Latin1String (extended ascii) to utf so I 
could use all of phobos's power; So I've ended up writing my own 
little conversion function for that. It's going to come down that 
stuff we write and post up that we think is self explanatory 
isn't because as the implementers we understand it in intimately.