How do you determine what goes into the standard library?

• Glide

  13 2 10.0 C++

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So I've noticed the more code I write in my language (Glide), the bigger my "standard library" gets. And by standard library, I mean a bunch of different files that contain really handy functions, i.e list functions like map, filter, reduce and string functions like to_chars, split etc.

• langs

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• luafilesystem

  3 873 4.5 C

  LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.

  

Lua: the standard library is extremely minimalist, and mostly operates within Lua's object model (i.e. not super low-level). The documentation for every standard library function, as well as the entire language fits on a single HTML page. The set of tools is very small, but they're extremely versatile, so I think it's a good example of how little you can get away with. In my opinion, the one glaring shortcoming of Lua's standard library is the lack of any filesystem support. You can read/write files, but you need to rely on third party libraries like LuaFileSystem to get basic filesystem stuff like directory traversal or listing files.

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