Encapsulating trust

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 07:41:25 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> And get all the associated compiler maintenance costs which 
>> add up with each smallest feature.
> so let's stop adding features at all. and extending Phobos too. 
> we are
> so scared by adding even simple things.

This is what we generally do. Features get added only if they 
enable something fundamentally new that can't be reasonably 
workarounded in Phobos (which does not have such cumulative 
maintenance implications). This is rather strict policy.