Yeah but those standard libraries are still inadequate 30 years later. Imagine a hypothetical Python scenario where every application and library had their own

Yeah but those standard libraries are still inadequate 30 years later. Imagine a hypothetical Python scenario where every application and library had their own list implementations with differently named methods and behavior. Yet C is exactly that. Is it not common place to log messages to a file? How many applications and code bases DO NOT use syslog(). And if one wants to use syslog, then assert failures won’t get logged there… Sure, with a custom assertion and logging framework one can get reasonable behavior. But it’s not automatic. Hence, a Tower of Babel …