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Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen (benhoyt.com)

submitted 3 days ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the only mainstream language with a standard library that is both good and comprehensive is Go. All of the others either have smaller standard libraries (e.g. Rust) or poorly designed ones (Python).

[–] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Java, .net and C++ have standard libraries that are much bigger and much more battle tested than the one of Go.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I haven't used Java for decades and never used .net so I'll take your word for those. Absolutely not for C++ though.

Go's standard library has:

JSON, XML, etc.
A web client and server
Bigints
Logging
JPEG, PNG and GIF
SQL client
SSH client
All the crypto algorithms
Gzip, zlib, deflate, etc.

C++ has none of that. Hell C++ only got a function to check if a string starts with a prefix a few years ago.