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What modern mainstream language is smaller than Python? Ruby? Javascript? Go is surely smaller but then your library surface area as well as code since increase correspondingly.


JS's standard library is smaller than Python's for sure. I... want to say Rust's standard library is as well, but the traits that are present tend to have a looooooot of methods (check out all the methods on Result!).

Python has a lot of things in the standard library, though I think the tendancy has been to stop adding things (case in point: I believe there is very little argument against putting requests into the standard library. I get why they don't but I disagree with the reasoning)


> though I think the tendancy has been to stop adding things

Yep you're right, there's even an official effort to clear some of these out: https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/


Lua?


Lua's use is probably an order of magnitude less than Python or smaller.


Assuming that's even true...And?

You didn't ask about relative usage. You asked for a mainstream languages smaller than Python. Lua almost certainly is.




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