--- title: Better Batteries | daily.dev description: An essay argues that the real question about standard libraries isn't whether they should be minimal or encompassing, but whether the maintaining organization... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/better-batteries-dodp9yzzv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Better Batteries | daily.dev og:description: An essay argues that the real question about standard libraries isn't whether they should be minimal or encompassing, but whether the maintaining organization... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/better-batteries-dodp9yzzv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dODP9yzzV.png og:image:alt: Better Batteries og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [matklad](https://daily.dev/sources/matklad) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/dODP9yzzV) # [Better Batteries](https://api.daily.dev/r/dODP9yzzV "Go to post") This title could be clearer and more informative.Try out Clickbait Shieldfor free (5 uses left this month). An essay argues that the real question about standard libraries isn't whether they should be minimal or encompassing, but whether the maintaining organization has the institutional capacity to design and evolve good APIs. Python's stdlib is inconsistent but enabled early experimentation that fueled its data science rise. Go's team is praised for strong stdlib design plus a thriving extended ecosystem (golang.org/x). Rust's 1.0 stdlib (collections, iterators) is called excellent, but its capacity to fill gaps and execute new API designs is seen as limited, with rust-lang-nursery described as a graveyard and the lack of a simple OS random-bytes API cited as an example of an organizational, not technical, failure. 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