Comment by steveklabnik
1 year ago
This has been suggested and tried over the years, even with the same name: https://crates.io/crates/stdx
In practice, they don’t gain adoption. The current situation is just better, or at least, many more people seem to think that in practice.
OP does advocate for support by Rust Foundation and possibly inclusion into standard Rust distribution: that would change adoption by default.
Whether that's really what a community wants is a different topic. Python ecosystem and its stdlib history is a good way to look at it (eg. urllib vs requests etc).