I think it's fine to architect a language in this way as long as there is a good 1st party effort at a comprehensive standard library. The failure mode I see mo

I think it's fine to architect a language in this way as long as there is a good 1st party effort at a comprehensive standard library. The failure mode I see most often of a small core is that there ends up being 100 libraries of varying quality and completeness to do common tasks e.g. parsing JSON.