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I think it's difficult to tell people to jettison their stdlib dependencies by now (I think OPAM reverse dependencies are about 50/50 between Core and Batteries

I think it's difficult to tell people to jettison their stdlib dependencies by now (I think OPAM reverse dependencies are about 50/50 between Core and Batteries). What I'd like to see is at least common data structures for useful things (like time) in the standard stdlib, and hooks for nice things like gen/seq (other high-qualities-but-very-lightweight libraries from the author of Containers).

nickpsecurity 11y ago
It might be difficult but it needs a strong, standard lib. I can't remember that many languages that really made it with several competing libraries for the basics. Could go Common LISP approach and do an integration but that would probably be similarly ugly. A LCD approach with stuff like you suggested might work. Maybe source-to-source translation from one to the other. (shrugs) Still think fragmentation might hold them back.