[burntsushi]

We did the same thing for Rust. Regexes are neither in the language nor in the standard library. Go doesn't have them in the language either (although they're in the standard library).

[macintux]

Rust wasn’t trying to become the standard web programming language.

[burntsushi]

I didn't realize that was a necessary precondition in your evaluation of what makes something "crazy." Sorry.

[macintux]

Sorry, early morning. I should have been more verbose.

Rust has a different target problem space, a different standard library philosophy, a package management system, and exists in a world where adding external dependencies is trivial.

Java didn’t have any of those excuses.

[oblio]

Well, Java turned out quite all right on that front :-)