[jaredklewis]

Yea I know, I was addressing that in my comment?

You have languages like JavaScript which are very “expressive” in that it comes with very little functionality but there are a wealth of libraries you can use to augment this. And this tradeoff is often lamented on HN since it’s never enough to just know JS; you have to know the particular libraries being used by the project.

Contrast that with batteries included languages like python or go.

And like I said above, Postgres extensions add features to the language, usually without any syntax changes (just new functions or operators). Isn’t this like a “library” in another language?

[xigoi]

Expressiveness and standard library size are unrelated. Python is just as expressive as JavaScript.