On 28-04-2012 23:18, SomeDude wrote:

Yeah, but core language AA are so useful it would be a MAJOR mistake to
remove them. In Python too, you could put the AA in the libraries. Yet
everybody uses the AA that are in the language.

Where I DO agree with you is, Phobos should be a two level library, i.e
a minimalistic library, with about the same feature set as the standard
C library + multithreading, and a superset with the full range of
features (ranges, algorithms, etc). I've already advocated it somewhere
else.

Let's get a standard package manager that we either advocate on dlang.org or include in the releases before we start talking about reducing the amount of modules in Phobos.