So someone who wants batteries included could add only std-ext as a dependency and get hyper as std_ext::http, regex as std_ext::regex, rust-csv as std_ext::csv and such to avoid needing awareness of the entire ecosystem when first starting out. Seasoned Rust developers would probably continue pulling in dependencies directly, but it might improve the experience for new Rust developers to have everything a 'use' statement away without needing to go look for it.
Also, some suggested metapackages/bundles wouldn’t hurt for newbies, like a set of crates for developing command line tools, for example.
Something like this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/
What if a 'winner' today is a loser in a year? What if we come up with a new approach to solving a problem that requires a breaking change, or a new crate?
Would someone be inclined to try to improve the state of HTTP given a good enough version in std? Would we be ok with discouraging that sort of competitive approach?
To be honest, all I see are downsides to having a huge std lib. The benefit seems to be that there isn't an obvious, de facto choice for what crates to use. But I think that's a problem better solved by crates.io.
My impression is that many of those who are asking for Rust's stdlib to grow are also/actually asking "please make it really easy for me to use these APIs that I care about," to which I would respond "it's OK, code can be easy to reuse even if it's not in the stdlib," "try cargo," and "crates.io needs to continue improving on discoverability."
EDIT: also, hi!
I think we're likely on the same page. The desire to make writing an HTTP server that much easier by providing a quick-to-use solution is entirely reasonable.
I just don't believe the solution is some 'sanctioned', permanent addition to std.
Better to be solved in crates.io.
That way libraries can coexist, but new developers have a single doc location to go to to find really common usages.
It might be nice to have autogenerated docs about the most used soltuions, but I guess the rust cook book sort of fills that niche.
