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What modern mainstream language is smaller than Python? Ruby? Javascript? Go is surely smaller but then your library surface area as well as code since increase

What modern mainstream language is smaller than Python? Ruby? Javascript? Go is surely smaller but then your library surface area as well as code since increase correspondingly.

rtpg 4y ago
JS's standard library is smaller than Python's for sure. I... want to say Rust's standard library is as well, but the traits that are present tend to have a looooooot of methods (check out all the methods on Result!). Python has a lot of things in the standard library, though I think the tendancy has been to stop adding things (case in point: I believe there is very little argument against putting requests into the standard library. I get why they don't but I disagree with the reasoning)
- smcl 4y ago
  > though I think the tendancy has been to stop adding things Yep you're right, there's even an official effort to clear some of these out: https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/ https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/
Semiapies 4y ago
Lua?
- Daishiman 4y ago
  Lua's use is probably an order of magnitude less than Python or smaller.
  - Semiapies 4y ago
    Assuming that's even true...And? You didn't ask about relative usage. You asked for a mainstream languages smaller than Python. Lua almost certainly is.