Maybe they are afraid of introducing some features they would later regret. This is not a hobby project of some lone hacker, it's meant to compile Google's infr

Maybe they are afraid of introducing some features they would later regret. This is not a hobby project of some lone hacker, it's meant to compile Google's infrastructure. I really don't see why user code has to have the same capabilities as the runtime. It looks more like a philosophical request than a practical one.