> Every third-party “tool” is actually a weakness: it’s doing something that either didn’t need to have been done at all, or could have been done better in the

> Every third-party “tool” is actually a weakness: it’s doing something that either didn’t need to have been done at all, or could have been done better in the first place. That's a rather absurd proposition. The number of problems a programming language can be applied to is infinite, and span virtually all domains of knowledge. A core dev team likely isn't even capable of making every necessary tool, the idea that they would always make the optimal implementation is laughable. And of course every user will have a different definition of what is necessary. The key to creating a great community is not to build lots of broken things to fix, but to build a strong foundation that makes building easy. A language can be lacking many important and useful features but so long as it has well thought out standards and a commonly understood vision, the easiest and simplest way to extend its capability is to remain consistent with other language features. These consistent third party tools make the language more widely applicable and easier to further extend.