We need to enhance the standard library!

Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 8 00:43:02 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 19:01:23 UTC, Piotrek wrote:
> Almost every "standard" evolves (e.g. USB, 3GPP, etc) and are 
> subject to change in subsequent releases. Stopping the progress 
> is not a case in good standardization process.

When I say "a good candidate for standardization", what I mean is 
a standardization of an API and module design, not a 
standardization in the traditional sense.

It doesn't matter that a standard like HTTP2 will have a new 
version (e.g. 2.1), what matters is the way in which the 
programmer interacts with it and how that API is designed. If 
there's no clear answer, e.g. urllib2 vs. requests, then that 
probably shouldn't be included in the standard library. 
Continuing with the urllib2 example, how many people do you 
suppose use urllib2 over requests, which is the most popular 
Python library by far? Despite this, the Python team is stuck 
maintaining urllib2.


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