> You can say that v1 already had too much cruft in it we should have removed > for v1
There was (at least) [this forum discussion](https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/3772) back around the time. It is often hard work to remove features giving workarounds to users. This indeed would have delayed the long-delayed 1.0 as Araq mentions. There are also [RFCs](https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort%3Aupdated-desc+) from time to time to simplify the language/compiler (that often get push back). It sounds like we probably have close to a year-ish until 1.8 and finally 2.0. I would encourage "language/stdlib minimizers" to open RFCs or Forum threads about **_each individual_** simplification to solicit more focused discussion (even though, yes, features can interact a bit). Now-ish is probably a good time.
