Many runtimes/languages rely on third party deps for that. Also plenty of devs think the stdlib should be as lean as possible.
replyPersonally, 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.
replyyeah I wish Node had something like that
replyDifficult to square the author's surprise with the later comment "I have my fair share of building a Java desktop application and know jpackage and alike very well"
replyYou can't get very far in Java development without working with .jar files (which are zip archives).
https://github.com/dotnet/Open-XML-SDK
replyFirst party from Microsoft; feels like it would be the way to go.
That is the source of DocumentFormat.OpenXml, you're talking about the same package, https://github.com/dotnet/Open-XML-SDK#packages
replyMicrosoft are incapable of:
1. naming things well
2. keeping those names stabledeleted
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