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Yet, Go’s net/http client/servers are fully production ready. This can be done right. Being able to just use them without having to follow the newest trends in
by q3k 6y ago
Yet, Go’s net/http client/servers are fully production ready. This can be done right. Being able to just use them without having to follow the newest trends in a language’s ecosystem is a huge cognitive burden off my mind.
- kzrdude 6y agoThat is great. Maybe I should ask, what is it that makes Python standard lib modules likely to end up like this? The list is pretty long.
- cesarb 6y agoThe Python standard library is old. For instance, urllib.urlopen() already existed in Python 1.4 (the oldest I could quickly find docs for), which is from 1996. Things that were useful back then (like a built-in uuencode module) no longer make much sense as part of the standard library. And mistakes in the API of a standard library are hard to fix without breaking backwards compatibility, while a third-party module can, in the worst case, be discarded and replaced by a newer one.