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Re:What's New in Python 3.11? by Daishiman on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:35AM (#31890913)
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.
Re:What's New in Python 3.11? by rtpg on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:28AM (#31891260)
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)

Re:What's New in Python 3.11? by smcl on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:37AM (#31891640)
> 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/

Re:What's New in Python 3.11? by Semiapies on Monday June 27, 2022 @09:54AM (#31894618)
Lua?
Re:What's New in Python 3.11? by Daishiman on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:37PM (#31897046)
Lua's use is probably an order of magnitude less than Python or smaller.
Re:What's New in Python 3.11? by Semiapies on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:06PM (#31897471)
Assuming that's even true...And?

You didn't ask about relative usage. You asked for a mainstream languages smaller than Python. Lua almost certainly is.