On 09/27/2013 11:55 AM, David MENTRE wrote:

Hello,

2013/9/27 Paolo Donadeo <p.donadeo@gmail.com>:

But, regarding the specific case of the
"extended library", there aren't many libraries, but only two:
Batteries and Core. And I think both of them have very strong points,
and the design is quite different.

Is there a short document somewhere explaining those design differences?

I haven't seen a document comparing the goals of both directly, but individually each project stated differing goals:

- Batteries aims to be a compatible _extension_ of stdlib (so minimal or no changes required for code already using stdlib)

- Core is an incompatible _replacement_ for stdlib, aiming to take the greatest advantage of the type system (existing code would have to be updated to use Core's API)

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