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I learned programming from C# which has an excellent standard library. Just recently started using Go which seems to have a good standard library. Been using py

I learned programming from C# which has an excellent standard library. Just recently started using Go which seems to have a good standard library. Been using python for years, can't say I ever had a complaint about the standard library. Rust meanwhile seems to be following some "no standard library" philosophy. I feel like there's an opportunity out there to become like an amoeba: fund and build a third party Rust standard library, absorb absolutely everyone who is so grateful to have a library, and then get so big absorb Rust itself.

ModernMech 28d ago
> Rust meanwhile seems to be following some "no standard library" philosophy. As an embedded dev, I personally find it very useful to compile Rust programs without a standard library. I would not use C# or Python for an embedded project for the reasons you probably prefer them for your projects.
- CrimsonCape 24d ago
  The guide that NASA put out for spaceflight systems was on HN earlier this year and one of the rules is "no heap allocations; all memory must be declared and fixed size for the life of the app." Isn't Rust the ideal language for that kind of limitation? We are talking C, C++, Rust, Zig as options I would guess; Rust certainly seems the ideal from those options. But you gotta admit people trying to build GUI libraries and using linked lists don't fit.