All of this seems to be justifying a lack of a decent standard library. However its appears to be written from the point of view of someone who's never had the

All of this seems to be justifying a lack of a decent standard library. However its appears to be written from the point of view of someone who's never had the joy/pain of a decent standard library. The problem with lots of tiny modules is consistency and power. Sure its "open source" but each one of these modules are in various states of decay. better to lump them together in sets of functions, so that more eyes can be concentrated in the same place.