In other for their APIs to evolve independently of the compiler's release cycle. In Python it is often said that stdlib is where modules go to die, and depende

In other for their APIs to evolve independently of the compiler's release cycle. In Python it is often said that stdlib is where modules go to die, and dependency management in Rust is a particularly different experience to most other languages. A good example of why keeping the standard library lean can be a good idea in the long term would be datetime handling in Java: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12032051/differences-between-java-util-date-and-joda-time-apis https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12032051/differences-bet...