[breatheoften]

Isn't that one of the big justifications for not bundling the standard library?

It seems to me like not shipping the std library with the runtime is potentially one of the biggest language innovations we've seen in awhile because it should allow the std library to evolve over time in a much more graceful way ... -- you'll actually be able to make breaking changes to the std library as folks who are unwilling to update their code can just use the older version (until the ossified code becomes irrelevant which eventually code that is never changed eventually will)

[littlestymaar]

How does it work when you want to use third-party libraries though? (because even if you have the biggest stdlib in existence, you'll still gonna end up using some external libraries no matter what)