Uncommon opinion (but not necessarily unpopular): I love languages with large standard libraries. I enjoy flipping through the language documentation, scouting for interesting functions or classes that may eventually come in handy.
My favorite large library language is Common Lisp but of course there are many others such as Smalltalk, Python, and Java.
@amoroso Well imagine you want a library function that converts an Int to a String. You can search hoogle for "Int -> String" and it will find all the functions with that type signature. Having come from a Java/C++/Go/Rust background, that's pretty neat and is something other languages could emulate.
@amoroso@phoebos Funny you should mention Tcl, because I find Tcllib and Tklib essential. Application programming languages need huge standard libraries, because their purpose is to make you productive right away writing real-world code.
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