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by arcticbull 2244 days ago
> Proposing to make Rust come with batteries included is proposing to change one of Rust's core values. Go ahead and write an RFC for that. I'll get my popcorn.

Again, my recommendation wasn't that, it was that the core team consider releasing "core" language features like Unicode support as first-party crates when they don't make sense as part of 'stdlib' not that I think they will. Feels weird to me that I have to rely on the goodwill of third parties to provide core language functionality like complete string handling.
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steveklabnik 2244 days ago
(We already do do this in some cases; these crates are authored by "The Rust Project Developers". For example, the regex crate is one of these.)
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jfkebwjsbx 2244 days ago
Yeah, but that makes them third-party already for many orgs' policies, even if they come from the same set of developers.

As soon as you have to add a crate, you are in for extra review and pain.

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steveklabnik 2243 days ago
I don't understand, wasn't

> it was that the core team consider releasing "core" language features like Unicode support as first-party crates

what you were asking for?

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arcticbull 2243 days ago
I think that's what I was asking for, but I'm not the person you were replying to ^_^, they were taking a more hard-line stance that it should be part of libstd.

Side-note I really appreciate all the work you folks are doing. Rust has changed the way I write software even when I'm not writing Rust, which is about the highest praise I can offer.

I'd love to pitch in.

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steveklabnik 2243 days ago
Whoops, how embarrassing for me!

Thanks :)

... how would you like to pitch in? I can point you to the right people. We're always happy to have more help.

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