alt Hacker NewsRust has a sizable and well featured standard library at this point. I think it would be absurd to claim that the base language is "near-unusable" if you are using it for system programming, which is its intended use case.
Huge standard libraries make sense for Java, Go, Apple platform etc. because they are developed by giant enterprises that can manage the overhead. Thinner modular systems are a more natural fit for open source development.
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It’s being used for a wide variety of other purposes however, and so perhaps it’s time to adapt to that reality.
While overhead is a real concern, I think it’s often blown out of proportion. Once a language achieves a certain baseline of stability and isn’t in constant flux and the standard library matures, changes become infrequent and maintenance load is low. The work is heavily front-loaded.
True. And the rust standard library is pretty good. But I really wish we had a good, fast, small futures executor in std. And accompanying async variants of File and Socket and so on.
Async rust is a jungle of weird compatibility questions. People treat async runtimes like sports teams. (I know I do). I wish it were more like Nodejs where async is just built in.