alt Hacker News> In practice you will tend to have a few, but you won't be vendoring out critical things like HTTP, TCP, JSON, string sanitation, cryptography
Unless you are Python, where the standard library includes multiple HTTP libraries and everyone installs the requests package anyways.
Few languages have good models for evolving their standard library, so you end up with lots of bad designs sticking around forever. Libraries are much easier to evolve, giving them the advantage in terms of developer UX and performance.
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requests should be in the Python standard library. Hard choices need to be made.
I'm pretty sure it's really one HTTP library: urllib.request is built on top of http.client. But the very Java-inspired API for the former is awful.
> Unless you are Python, where the standard library includes multiple HTTP libraries and everyone installs the requests package anyways.
The amount of time defining same data structures over and over again vs `pip install requests` with well defined data structures.
> Few languages have good models for evolving their standard library
What type of developer chooses UX and performance over security? So reckless.
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