Re:What's New in Python 3.11?
by Daishiman on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:35AM
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What modern mainstream language is smaller than Python? Ruby? Javascript? Go is surely smaller but then your library surface area as well as code since increase correspondingly.
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JS's standard library is smaller than Python's for sure. I... want to say Rust's standard library is as well, but the traits that are present tend to have a looooooot of methods (check out all the methods on Result!).
Python has a lot of things in the standard library, though I think the tendancy has been to stop adding things (case in point: I believe there is very little argument against putting requests into the standard library. I get why they don't but I disagree with the reasoning)
> though I think the tendancy has been to stop adding things
Yep you're right, there's even an official effort to clear some of these out: https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/
Lua?
Lua's use is probably an order of magnitude less than Python or smaller.