I don't think this is that much of a problem. If I want to use a modern library, I just type "gem install whatever" and I have the new library. Documentation fo

I don't think this is that much of a problem. If I want to use a modern library, I just type "gem install whatever" and I have the new library. Documentation for the stdlib is not really better or easier to find than that for third party libs, so I tend to use whatever seems nicer after a quick google search and I guess other people do it like that, too.