I wonder what you're doing that you find a lack of libraries. I have had no such problem, but I could imagine math or scientific libraries being in short suppl

I wonder what you're doing that you find a lack of libraries. I have had no such problem, but I could imagine math or scientific libraries being in short supply... it's not really a language those fields have found suitable for their needs. Most stuff you'd use in a networked server application or command line tool exists.