Which languages do you consider to have the biggest/smallest standard libraries?
JS and Rust have a reputation for being pretty small. C has fewer data structures, but a bunch of system APIs.
Python feels more like a kitchen sink.
Where are other languages on this spectrum?
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"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures." — Alan Perlis
I'm still not sure I agree with this: explicit data types are often nice. Following this maxim leads to pervasive lists or hash maps.
Difftastic 0.29 is out!
* A ton of optimisation (30% shorter runtime) from smaller data structures
* Improved cases where the outer delimiter is preferred (lisps, JSON)
* Better detection of binary files (thanks @OnlyXuanwo)
* Improved Perl, added Elvish
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Heapless is a neat Rust library that provides versions of data structures like Vec that don't use the heap. It's a familiar API, but some are necessarily different (e.g. Vec::push returns a result)
https://japaric.github.io/heapless/heapless/index.html