Does D have too many features?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Marco Leise" <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote in message 
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> I don't know about Phobos. Some batteries included are nice and help the 
> popularity. When it comes to bindings to third party products with many 
> alternatives, like databases, I'd say one should cut it there definitly.
>

Yea, it's a tradeoff either way. Once we have a mature "D CPAN", there will 
be less reason to pack things into Phobos. But until that actually happens, 
a "batteries included"-style std lib is necessary. And of course, like you 
say, there are likely things that just aren't appropriate for the std lib 
either way.