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Version: 0.1.0

External packages

External packages provide:

  • OS integrations
  • performance-critical native backends
  • larger feature sets than stdlib should carry

Examples include:

  • networking (HTTP/TLS, servers, client)
  • databases (sqlite/pg/mysql/redis)
  • filesystem utilities
  • time + tzdb
  • math (f64)
  • regex (native implementation)

Principle: one canonical binding per domain​

External packages should not expose 3 competing ways to do the same thing.

Instead:

  • define a pinned spec (bytes encoding)
  • provide pack/unpack helpers
  • keep native shims behind a stable ABI