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Re:Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps by sharikous on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:34PM (#29826665)
Good luck with hoping for adopting those features into Base. Even debugging requires its own package in Julia.

But to be fair also Rust is guilty of keeping the base small and leaving important stuff in external crates (serde, tokio,...).

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Re:Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps by ModernMech on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:00PM (#29828185)
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.
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Re:Julia frameworks to create desktop GUIs and web apps by adgjlsfhk1 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:57PM (#29828138)
There is interest in improving testing in Base. Retest seems really nice, but has a few caveats. If you have ideas, bring them up in Discourse/Slack.
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