Not quite. I don’t think low level languages mean you need a small standard library and high level means you need a large one. You’re pattern matching between

Not quite. I don’t think low level languages mean you need a small standard library and high level means you need a large one. You’re pattern matching between Python, Java, Go (all large, older) and now Rust (small and newer). Rust wants to be high level as well, allowing people to solve all kinds of problems of varying complexity in different domains. And to some extent, Rust has succeeded in empowering folks to do this. Rust has found its way into “systems” like browsers (Chromium, Firefox) and Operating Systems (Windows, Linux) but also web software, infrastructure (firecracker), developer tools (ruff, turbopack) and other domains. Like I said, the request for a larger standard library is a reasonable one. But I don’t think it’s going to happen, because Rust seems to be gaining traction in multiple domains without it. By the numbers it looks like it’s growing 10x every 3 years (https://lib.rs/stats https://lib.rs/stats). In such an environment, the folks at the wheel would double down on their approach rather than fundamentally rethinking it.