Many runtimes/languages rely on third party deps for that. Also plenty of devs think the stdlib should be as lean as possible.
Personally, I think there should be a balance. The direct consequence of a barebones stdlib is NPM and having to download hundreds of dependencies for a hello world.
Golang has the golang.org/x packages, which avoids too much stdlib bloat while still providing the niceties of “pre-vetted” packages that don’t pull in a massive dependency tree.
yeah I wish Node had something like that
It does! (well Deno does but you can use them in Node)
https://jsr.io/@std
support is not uniform though
eg: https://jsr.io/@std/dotenv