Standard library notes

Notes taken at rust work week, 2011/06/23

Things that standard libraries might want

• collections
• list, hash, deque, vec, stack, queue, prioque, trees, set, bitv
• bitv
• iteration
• IO
• AIO, SIO, stdio
• filesystem
• path manipulation
• <> or fileinput
• timers
• string manipulation
• slicing w/o copy, stringref
• regexp
• ropes
• networking
• HTTP client / server
• date / time
• math, random
• compression
• libicu
• serialization (protobuf / thrift / json)
• xml
• crypto
• concurrency
• task management, actor, OTP, MapReduce, pools
• low-level OS services
• unit testing
• FFI, ctypes
• dlopen, os proceses
• standard predicates
• text, numeric, sorted
• error-trapping wrappers, in-place task?
• Consistent error handling
• quotas, accounting
• reflection

Things that do not belong in std

• DB API
• ZeroMQ
• GUI

Missing language features

• big
• any
• claim
• note