[META] Standard Library wishlist

[thehowl]

See Go<>Gno compatibility for a current state.

This issue is intended as a starting place for anyone who wants to work on adding new standard libraries to Gno. It's an opinionated collection of libraries which I think should be added to the Gno standard libraries.

• If you want to make a case for a standard library to be added, add a comment explaining your reasoning.
• If you want to port over a standard library, make an issue for it and assign yourself (if it's going to take a while), referencing this PR. If you can do it quickly, make a PR referencing this issue!

General workflow for adding stdlibs:

1. Copy over from your /usr/lib/go/src/$path directory
2. Convert all go files to gno: for i in *.go; do g="$(echo $i | sed 's/.go$/.gno/')"; mv $i $g; done
3. go test tests/*.go -run "TestPackages/your/package/path", fix, repeat until it works! (run from gnovm directory)

Consider, of course, adding new tests where appropriate, and disabling features when we don't support them (like reflect for now).

Up for grabs

• context
• encoding feat(stdlibs): add encoding, encoding/{base32,binary,csv} #1290
• encoding/base32 feat(stdlibs): add encoding, encoding/{base32,binary,csv} #1290
• encoding/binary feat(stdlibs): add encoding, encoding/{base32,binary,csv} #1290
• encoding/csv feat(stdlibs): add encoding, encoding/{base32,binary,csv} #1290
• encoding/pem
• expvar -- maybe, discussion Add "debug" stdlib #1266
• hash feat: add hash  #1273
• hash/crc32
• html
• io/fs feat: Porting io/fs package #1323
• math -- feat(stdlibs): add math and math/bits #1153
• math/bits -- feat(stdlibs): add math and math/bits #1153
• math/rand Port math/rand to gno #1272

Better after native bindings #859

Crypto libraries are generally better after native bindings as they greatly benefit from native performance.

• crypto/aes
• crypto/des
• crypto/dsa
• crypto/ecdh
• crypto/ecdsa
• crypto/ed25519
• crypto/hmac
• crypto/elliptic
• crypto/md5
• crypto/rsa
• crypto/sha1
• reflect
• strconv
• text/scanner
• text/tabwriter

Better after reflection

• encoding/asn1
• encoding/json
• encoding/gob (not sure about this, but it could be fun!)
• encoding/xml
• encoding/binary (full)
• fmt
• html/template
• text/template
• text/template/parse
• sort
• errors update (Is, As, Unwrap...)

Possibly, but need discussion

• math/big

tags: stdlibs stdlib encoding/json reflect