But no one is stopping you from building a "full modern standard library". I am doing just that with https://github.com/galdor/tungsten https://github.com/galdo

But no one is stopping you from building a "full modern standard library". I am doing just that with https://github.com/galdor/tungsten https://github.com/galdor/tungsten. Of course it would be nice to have a large company do all the work as it is the case for Go, but it is not going to happen. As always, you either do the work yourself or pay someone to do it. The specification is limited, no doubt about that, but I am convinced that any modernization effort would end up in a huge mess with everyone trying to inject their own preferences from the languages they already know with no regard for the spirit of the original specification.