Yeah I agree in principle. There's lots of people who defend it but I think it is a mistake for the Rust stdlib to be missing a lot of quite basic common stuff

Yeah I agree in principle. There's lots of people who defend it but I think it is a mistake for the Rust stdlib to be missing a lot of quite basic common stuff (random numbers, sha256, md5 are obvious ones to me for example.) They could even break said lib up (stdlib, stdlib-ext, stdlib-embedded) if necessary. But status quo is just inviting future disaster in my opinion. And don't get me started on the async story. Yikes. Rust is the language that Tokio ate.