Since there's been some take about reducing the standard library, and because I 
was curious, I decided to generate some statistics for usage of the standard 
library in GitHub projects. I used the top 1000 most starred Nim projects on 
GitHub.

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**Results:** 
[https://gist.github.com/GULPF/6d49e74af9992f8fc65476a9264488a0](https://gist.github.com/GULPF/6d49e74af9992f8fc65476a9264488a0)

Some observations:

  * `re` is used significantly more than `nre`
  * `parseopt` is used more than `parseopt2`
  * About ~25% of the projects use the `macros` module
  * `posix` is used about twice as much as `winlean` (not surprising)



Note: I based the list of stdlib modules on 
[this](https://nim-lang.org/docs/theindex.html) listing, which includes some 
modules that are not listed on the main documentation page. 

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