Does D have too many features?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"SomeDude" <lovelydear at mailmetrash.com> wrote in message 
news:jrdmqmchgbibqmrwzwsk at forum.dlang.org...
> On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 05:54:10 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
>> Am Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:39:49 -0400
>>
>> Madness even! AAs are soon mostly in the library and that's a good 
>> trade-off; @trusted @system needs to be there as long as there is @safe; 
>> exception handling - some people rely on it heavily. See it as the easy 
>> way to error out of a function that doesn't normally return anything and 
>> cascade up several calls, while being able to release resources in each.
>> 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.
>> I can agree on the rest.
>
>
> I don't want AA to be removed from the core language. That would be a big 
> step backward in my opinion. Core language AAs are entirely adequate for a 
> lot of applications, and they make for so much cleaner and easier to 
> read/write code than template notation.

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.