You may have been correct 20 years ago, but I don't believe this argument holds water nowadays. HTTP APIs are everywhere from being required to control small em

You may have been correct 20 years ago, but I don't believe this argument holds water nowadays. HTTP APIs are everywhere from being required to control small embedded systems to interacting with large complex daemons. These usecases are exactly the space where Rust/stdlib is meant to be used. Rust has included TCP and UDP in the standard library* because it was rightly recognized that these protocols, like stdio and filesystem io, have become fundamental to how most modern software interacts with its environment (system, IPC). HTTP today has also become fundamental in a similar manner. I argue that it is time that we treated it as such. * as apposed to leaving them as an external dependency, like mio.