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I’m amazed this is still a problem, it makes it hard to treat python seriously

• franga2000 5y ago
  Python has one of the most exhaustive stdlibs out there. Surely the a handful of useful but trivial missing functions don't make it any less serious than, for example, NodeJS, which barely even has a stdlib.
  • KptMarchewa 5y ago
    Python also has one of the most outdated and dead libs in stdlib out there. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/
    • franga2000 5y ago
      The stdlib contains outdated modules, it's not outdated itself. Windows 11 still contains some DLLs dating back as far as at least NT 4.0 and nobody would call it an outdated OS. The stdlib is constantly being improved and I for one am glad that older and rarely used features are being kept around instead of booting them out with the next minor release.
      • KptMarchewa 5y ago
        >The stdlib is constantly being improved At a glacial pace. Generally stuff is being added and left to die. >rarely used features are being kept around instead of booting them out with the next minor release Or, maybe, being actively maintained? Python desperately lacked corporate interest and paid maintainership, and I'm glad that this starts to change. Entirely volunteer model sounds cool, until you see that people are only interested in adding "cool" stuff and syntactic sugar like walrus operator.
  • mountainriver 5y ago
    I would rather they did less well