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> isn't much momentum yet to change the status quo. it's complex problem with tons of partial solutions which each have tons of ways to implement them with oft
by dathinab 1y ago
> isn't much momentum yet to change the status quo.
it's complex problem with tons of partial solutions which each have tons of ways to implement them with often their no being a clear winner
i.e. it's the kind of hard to solve by consensus problem
e.g. the idea of a extended standard library is old (around since the beginning of rust) but for years it was believed it's probably the best to make it a separate independent project/library for various reason. One being that the saying "the standard library is the place where code goes to die" has been quite true for multiple ecosystems (most noticeably python)
as a side note ESL wouldn't reduce the LOC count it would increase it as long as you fully measure LOCs and not "skip" over some dependencies