H. S. Teoh:

Personally, I'm for simplifying the core language and moving
non-essentials out to the standard library

How do you define "essential"?
- Frequently used;
- The compiler can compile it as efficiently as handwritten code;
- Has a sufficiently clean semantics, that is most times the one that's desired;
- You can't (yet) implement its main purposes with library-code;
- Sufficiently important.
- etc.

Bye,
bearophile

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