A library with more contributors is almost always better than a lib with fewer IME. More perspectives and a greater range of ideas.
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Some excellent safety improvements in C++26: hardening the standard library against out-of-bounds bugs, and a safer semantics for uninitialised local variables:
I've been working on a search tool for a website with 9K items and a dumb implementation works just fine. I'd normally gravitate to a library or tool like elasticsearch (ES).
Adding custom filters etc is trivial on handrolled code. I wonder what scale requires actual search infra like ES.
Is there any relationship between language adoption and the size of its standard library?
These days it seems completely orthogonal, but early Java adopters spoke highly of the collections library compared with C++.
Maybe it's the widespread availability of package managers?