Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat
by sanderjd on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:36AM
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Ok thanks. Is the intention for that to grow, as a curated set of libraries that isn't quite the standard library? Or so you think some of those will move into the standard library if they become canonical or stable enough?
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Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat
by steveklabnik on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:00AM
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We’ll see; it’s not a simple thing.
In theory they can move into the standard library, but none ever have. The process exists though.
I can think of a bunch of stuff that has moved or is moving from third party crates into the standard library: parking_lot, hashbrown, (minimal) Future trait. But I agree that no crate has moved wholesale into the standard lib.
Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat
by steveklabnik on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:03PM
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parking lot and hashbrown moved their internals, replacing ones that already existed. This is probably a distinction that doesn’t actually matter but in my head it’s different for some reason, thanks for pointing it out :)