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Re:Rust Cookbook by dodobirdlord on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:16AM (#19418835)
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but cannot a large part of this be addressed by significantly expanding the standard library? A favorite feature of mine in AWS CloudFormation is the ability when writing Lambda functions for the Python runtime to inline the code into the template and sidestep the process of generating and uploading code artifacts. This works because other than the (provided) boto3 SDK, I generally need nothing but the standard library.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...

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Re:Rust Cookbook by dan-robertson on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:45AM (#19419307)
Putting things in the standard library can greatly slow down their development as it upgrades when the standard library does and deprecating things can be more painful for library users because it is much easier to choose an older version of some boring library than of the standard library.

Then again, maybe one would want such things to slow down development

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Re:Rust Cookbook by turbinerneiter on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:57AM (#19419549)
There is probably a _right time_ to start pulling more libraries into the standard library.
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Re:Rust Cookbook by steveklabnik on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:23AM (#19421226)
That comes with all of the downsides of significantly expanding the standard library.
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