> 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.
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.