[mxben]

> As soon as something enters the standard library its API is basically set in stone

Is that really all that different from Python?

[chrismorgan]

No, that’s the point: if you put this stuff in the standard library, it gets frozen forever, and that’s why Rust doesn’t.

[infinityio]

To quote the python developers guide:

> Because of Python’s conservative nature when it comes to backwards-compatibility, when a module is added to the stdlib its API becomes frozen.

So it sounds like they do do something fairly similar, but just a different mindset on adding libraries