What should be Standard Library Features?

[FyreByrd]

What should be Standard Library instead of built-in? We need to think carefully about this because I would like it to be possible to implement the Standard Library entirely in code.

Starting categories to consider:

• Collections
• Allocators
• I/O
• File system

[ben-laird]

Agreed. For ideas, here are some standard libraries that I really like:

1. Rust because of course. They document literally everything, including keywords and compiler intrinsics.
2. Zig because they also document quite a bit, and they give a good example of what a lower-level language would want to implement (in addition to Rust, but without all the compiler magic, and with all the comptime power)
3. Deno's Standard Library and API reference because they give a good example of what a higher-level language would want to implement, especially a web-focused language that needs to handle arbitrary DSLs.
4. Haskell because it's a great example of what a nerdy, math-focused/functional-programming-focused language would want to implement, specifically
   • base
   • rio
   • Extra resource: Haskell applications and libraries Wiki page
   • Extra resource: StackOverflow q on what's the standard library