alt Hacker News> it's only limited compared to Python
Erm ....
Its limited compared to Go as well.
And that's a BIG deal because Go gives you single binaries with a stdlib that allows you to hit the ground running in a serious manner.
For example, making API calls which is the sort of thing many here do for their bread and butter. Everything you need to do can be don in Go stdlib without opening yourself up to supply chain vulnerabilities or having to choose which crate or having to keep track of crates versioning. The same could be said of crypto or hundreds of other things present in the Go stdlib.
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> Its limited compared to Go as well.
It depends on perspective. Go is tailored for writing backends, so it's great that it provides things like net/http (we could also interpret cause and effect inversely here; Go provides net/http so it gets used for writing backends). Rust's standard library is actually pretty damn huge, but it doesn't index heavily into specific applications, and instead tries to provide comprehensive support for low-level operations that enable you to build a custom-tailored solution to whatever you need on top of it. Rust's stdlib is "small" if all you want to do is build a webserver and don't want to go shopping around for libraries, but anyone who's intimately familiar with Rust's stdlib can tell you for a fact that it's absolutely not small in absolute terms. Rust literally stabilizes hundreds of new stdlib functions per year.
Rust gives you statically linked binaries as well.
So your argument boils down to having to add `reqwest = "0.13.3"` to your `Cargo.toml`.
This is mostly only true if you're writing a network service or maybe a CLI tool. Which is fair enough, since that's what Go is primarily for, but Rust aims to be, not just usable, but the best option, in a broader variety of domains. It wouldn't be feasible to have a batteries-included stdlib for all of them. (Python historically tried, and the results have been rather famously unsatisfactory.)
Also, even network services benefit from things like OpenAPI for type safety, and you don't get that from the Go stdlib.