This issue gets discussed over and over again. Rust does need a better package curation story, a Rust "expanded universe" of recommended packages whose provena

This issue gets discussed over and over again. Rust does need a better package curation story, a Rust "expanded universe" of recommended packages whose provenance is more carefully tracked than the average package and whose APIs are stable. The Rust community needs to encourage other packages to depend on stable versions in that recommended set to reduce duplication. But going further and actually making that set to be part of the "standard library", and thus released at the cadence of the Rust language itself, and managed under the same umbrella, would be harmful.