And at the other extreme, it takes TC39 seven years to bikeshed half of a decent implementation of Python's context managers: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-e

And at the other extreme, it takes TC39 seven years to bikeshed half of a decent implementation of Python's context managers: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-management/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen... On one extreme, we have standards committees that move glacially, and on the other, we have a chaotic package ecosystem moving faster than is prudent. The two are related.