alt Hacker NewsI think it's clear to me that Rust needs to start admitting more into the STD to help with this and increase the consistency across the ecosystem.
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vacuity • 11/04/2025
No, I think the idea of blessing a set of crates (with versions!) is better. The stdlib has a high burden of maintenance, and ideally should only be added to if changes are always backwards compatible. A blessed set is more flexible but still provides a high degree of reliability, unlike the present situation.
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This has happened already. See https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/struct.LazyCell.html
It's just it's not frequent.
There is very few things that need to be in the standard library. I only ever miss chrono or equivalent not being in std.