On Thursday, January 19, 2012 22:33:30 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > Regardless of your preferences, the majority of the D community likes to > have a standard library, so there's no reason to just stop shipping it > (even though I don't think that's what you're suggesting).
Most languages have fairly large standard libraries. If anything, Phobos is small. Just look at languages like C#, python, or Java. Many programmers now expect large standard libraries. They don't prevent you from using 3rd party solutions if you want to, but they make the language a lot easier to use. - Jonathan M Davis