Comment by 6510

Libraries and languages are not actually about syntax or function. They are communities first. They each have a community of users and one of developers. Depending on their application they each attract very different people - which is wonderful.

The work matters too of course. Frequently used functions should be categorically bagged into libs and if the lib is used often enough some of it's functionality should be baked into the language. If languages require something often enough the language layer above should provide it and if things are frequently needed close to the metal it should be baked in hardware. Possibly as a co-processor and then as part of the cpu. We should even have a similar process moving things in the other direction. I cant wait for the day when floating-point arithmetic becomes a library complete with a community of people who still think it's wonderful. Like a football channel to cleanly contain that kind of undesirable materials. Some libraries/modules/frameworks should also be replaced by competent developers. We don't want a leftpad community.