The standard library contains core utilities provided by all implementations of the language.
The standard library contains core utilities provided by all implementations of the language.
The size and scope of the standard library varies between languages, some provide only a few basic components for such things as string handling and I/O, whereas others provide higher-level tools for a wide variety of tasks such as XML processing, networking and database access.
For questions about specific languages' standard libraries use this tag in conjunction with the tag for the language, or use the indicated tags for these languages:
- C++ stdlib, std, or where appropriate stl
- .NET bcl
- OCaml has several standard library replacements, the most prominent being ocaml-core and ocaml-batteries
