So the question is, if we're going ahead to create this kind of standard libs for PD, what should they be written in?
C
If we want a lot of functionality fast then python seems like the best solution
anyone can already use Python, Tcl Scheme, Guile, Ruby etc..
it would be great to have bindings to all the POSIX stuff like fopen() etc , instead of semi-featured inconsistent frontends to a few pieces here and there like the [sprintf] external in cyclone or the [popen] external or bits of fopen() in soundfiler..maybe it can be generated with SWIG.. since stuff like python just hooks into the same things, i dont see why PD cant do it without a middleman..although maybe string/raw-bytes types and some better object-reference mechanisms would help? .. i have no idea how much work it would be (has anyone on this list implemented a standard library in a scripting language?)