On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:14:47 +1100 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > There are plenty of other languages that come with a tiny stdlib and > leave everything else to third parties. Outside of those like > Javascript, which has a privileged position due to it being the standard > browser scripting language (and is backed by an ISO standard and at > least one major companies vigourously driving it), how is that working > out for them?
And even for Javascript, that seems to be a problem, with the myriad of dependencies JS apps seem to have for almost trivial matters, and the security issues that come with relying on so many (sometimes ill-maintained) third-party libraries. Actually, PyPI is also been targeted these days, even though hopefully it didn't (yet?) have the ramifications such attacks have had in the JS world (see e.g. the recent "event-stream" incident: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/180565383195/details-about-the-event-stream-incident ) I agree with you that the stdlib's "batteries included" is a major feature of Python. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com