> I may be misunderstanding you, but it feels like strings and datetimes are library related more than language related. Yes would agree and see them as platfo

> I may be misunderstanding you, but it feels like strings and datetimes are library related more than language related. Yes would agree and see them as platform related. It's just too large a task to create from scratch. Like say on JVM you can compile to bytecode and have strings already built into platform, and java.time, and ability to access an ecosystem of libraries. With zig could one could use c or rust libraries?