Counterpoint: maintaining an entire language is really hard and time-consuming. If you increase the surface area to a large stdlib, you're suddenly requiring co

Counterpoint: maintaining an entire language is really hard and time-consuming. If you increase the surface area to a large stdlib, you're suddenly requiring core maintainers to spend a lot of time debugging libraries just to release a language version. Also consider that PHP, which has an astonishingly huge stdlib, still has native classes that handle SOAP requests that must be maintained for backwards compatibility.