Does D have too many features?

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/29/2012 10:28 AM, SomeDude wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 08:13:53 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Hmmm, sounds nice, but bolting the language with the standard library is
> very risky (and a rather bad idea imho). Unless there is a very
> lightweight minimalistic core for Phobos (something which I advocate),
> you bolt a heavyweight library to your language, and that's not good.
>

druntime is the library it will be moved into, not Phobos.