[Ygg2]

Moment you add something to std it's effectively died. Strong backwards guarantees will choke development of library.

Python std is where libraries go to die.

[rafaelmn]

Who says that's a bad thing ? Sometimes things are good enough and just need to be vetted and maintained.

[Ygg2]

Rarely that's ever true. Hardware and software assumption will change over time. E.g. Simd is rare and not available to 99% of hardware has it, pointer is 16/32/64 bit wide, that API is available, SGML/JSON/XML is all parsing you will ever need.