There's a downside to Python's batteries-included approach though: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to-die/ https://leancrew.com/all-this

There's a downside to Python's batteries-included approach though: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to-die/ https://leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to-di... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913182 The obvious compromise would be to let libraries bake as third-party projects for a good long while until there's a fair amount of consensus that they're the Right Thing To Do, then pull them into the standard library. Java's Joda-Time would be one example.