I think the philosophy of Rust is to have a minimal micro-kernel standard library, allowing developers to choose crates that implement solutions in ways that fi

I think the philosophy of Rust is to have a minimal micro-kernel standard library, allowing developers to choose crates that implement solutions in ways that fit their particular problem space. I like that approach more than a 'one true way' approach. Both approaches have their advantages and crates approach can lead to things like the left-pad problem experience, where the loss of a single one-function package in the NodeJS ecosystem resulted in thousands of projects breaking, including NodeJS itself and Babel. All in all though, I still like the crate approach. The trick is for developers to not publish trivial crates, and to not allow unpublishing except in extreme circumstances (i.e., for cybersecurity reasons).