> You avoid the problem where the compression library in the std library is the one that experienced programmers tell all the noobs that they should never use.

> You avoid the problem where the compression library in the std library is the one that experienced programmers tell all the noobs that they should never use. This is not inevitable. In the .NET world we have great compressors in the standard library. Zip and gzip aren't going anywhere. I totally disagree with the idea that we would have been better off without those compressors in the standard library.