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Re:Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls by mxben on Friday July 15, 2022 @11:37AM (#32109226)
> As soon as something enters the standard library its API is basically set in stone

Is that really all that different from Python?

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Re:Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls by chrismorgan on Friday July 15, 2022 @11:46AM (#32109332)
No, that’s the point: if you put this stuff in the standard library, it gets frozen forever, and that’s why Rust doesn’t.
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Re:Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls by infinityio on Friday July 15, 2022 @12:42PM (#32110043)
To quote the python developers guide:

> Because of Python’s conservative nature when it comes to backwards-compatibility, when a module is added to the stdlib its API becomes frozen.

So it sounds like they do do something fairly similar, but just a different mindset on adding libraries

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