Ask HN: Libraries Needed for New Languages

3 points by whistlerbrk 11y ago ↗ HN

There is a plethora of new languages being discussed here on HN everyday and a lot of talk about how to get involved. Many, I'm sure, would like to engage with a new language but often there is a mental barrier on what to build and a simple To-Do List to learn something either doesn't teach enough or doesn't feel useful enough for some to start.

So my question is - what is the "directory" of common missing needs? That is (most) every language needs(? / ends up getting) :

* an email library * a web framework * a queue framework * a descriptive statistics library * an ImageMagick wrapper * a number of database wrappers * an ORM * a deployment framework * etc etc etc

Perhaps not great examples above as most are related to the web and not games and other disciplines but you get the gist.

Just a thought

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adamnemecek 11y ago ↗

this might be of your interest https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-June/010139...

whistlerbrk 11y ago ↗

Thank you, precisely what I was looking for. Rust seems like it is a very well organized community!

I think most of this stuff is too low level for me, but maybe I'll take a look at the HTTP libs, there is the slightest chance I could be of use there.

wofo 11y ago ↗

There is actually a nice HTTP library called Hyper (https://github.com/hyperium/hyper). Maybe you could help there.

allendoerfer 11y ago ↗

To be adopted by serious people for serious business cases™ a language needs a reason why it should be used instead of Python that a mature and highly adopted Python library or tool does not counter. For example this means the language needs a library to beat not only Python but Python + Numpy. After that wait 10 years and you will get even more serious enterprise business people™ to switch from Java.