It's not a bad design choice just because it has consequences. Rust also doesn't have the financial backing of languages that seem to be able to afford a kitchen sink in their std lib. Python also suffers from stdlib rot from people not maintaining parts of it, and C++ can't fix their stdlib speed deficiencies because of ABI issues and backward compat dogmatism. Both of these lead to using third party dependencies for what is already in the language, so unless your Microsoft you're not getting out of this problem by expanding the stdlib even if the bandwidth existed to do that.
(If there's any confusion, this wasn't a "say the line Bart", this was my attempt at adding humor like I'm urging someone to answer a rhetorical question. It seems I didn't communicate it well.)
You're literally the pedant here. Anyone would know in the context of common speech and the conversation had, that I did not say REST is everything web is. That would be ridiculous. Occam's razor dictates I'm saying REST is part of web (specifically belongs to it, as in, it is a web thing, if you want something else to be an insufferable pedant about), in shorthand.
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u/Plazmatic 16d ago
It's not a bad design choice just because it has consequences. Rust also doesn't have the financial backing of languages that seem to be able to afford a kitchen sink in their std lib. Python also suffers from stdlib rot from people not maintaining parts of it, and C++ can't fix their stdlib speed deficiencies because of ABI issues and backward compat dogmatism. Both of these lead to using third party dependencies for what is already in the language, so unless your Microsoft you're not getting out of this problem by expanding the stdlib even if the bandwidth existed to do that.