>> Maybe it's not directly related to this topic, but shouldn't that be >> rather part of druntime? > > Only if something else in druntime needs it, which it doesn't. > > - Jonathan M Davis
There is a real trend to purify the language. I also think it's the right decision to replace compiler intrinsics / language feature with their library counterparts. Moving stuff to phobos is fine as long as you use phobos. But I'm using tango and druntime. I haven't even installed phobos on my system. The same impacts deimos. People tend to create unneccessary phobos dependencys.
