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There can be more than one problem, including having a small standard library.

The lack of a standard library can be fixed relatively easily: write libraries! OTOH, the existence of anti-modular language features that are extensively used in several major libraries, is a more serious problem, because:

(0) It means that libraries in general won't play nicely with each other, unless they're explicitly designed to do so.

(1) It can't be fixed without throwing away code.

This whole thread is exactly about how "write libraries!" (if done outside the standard library) doesn't work (see my top post).

I do agree that lack of modularity features certainly doesn't help though.

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