[rmattes]

Sure, but even then, I think his point is still applicable. It's urllib2 and requests, not urllib2 and requests and 20 other libraries. The fact that an inferior library is being kept alive by being in the stdlib is maybe unfortunate, but there's still only a small number of choices overall. That makes it much easier to do research and see within the first few search results that the majority of the community recommends one over the other.

[ayrx]

His point is absolutely not applicable. Rust is a _very_ new language. The community will eventually converge on specific crates for specific purposes in time.