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Prevents vs acts to prevent. Sorry, I misspoke. Fact is. Nobody builds a standard library to reduce dependency hell. They do it to eliminate it. The standard

• jononor 8y ago
  No standard library contains everything most people need, and sometimes the stdlib version is not the preferred. Look for instance at Python. Lot of people use requests instead of urllib for HTTP client. No-one uses the HTTP server. Until 3.x no support for async IO or event loops, so we have Twisted/gevent/eventlet, mostly incompatible. My is only that there are painpoints around dependencies event with a stdlib.