[Kwpolska]

I thought Rust’s got a very small standard library, only focusing on things that must be in a standard library, mainly primitives or things which require co-operation with the underlying OS (e.g. thread and process management)? That’s completely opposite of Python’s “batteries included” approach.

[woodruffw]

Sure, I'm not making a categorical argument about big vs. small stdlibs. I'm just noting that "a good default HTTP library" is in fact kind of unusual, whether or not the language is batteries-included or not.

(As an outsider I had the impression that Go's net/http was good, but a lot of people in this thread are complaining about it as well. So it may be 0-4 instead of 1-3).