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hello there 👋

we've made a start on the standard library in #8150 🎉

i was thinking about some other things we might want to add to the standard library 😏

the actual ideas

👉 looking at my personal collection of scripts and taking comments i've had on the discord server:

Note
these are NOT true requests, only ideas i put forward 😉
some of them might not make sense in the standard library
some might be missing from what i've gathered in my personal nushell scripts

• a "downloads" module to interact with the downloads file by defining $env.DOWNLOADS_DIR
• some cross-platform tools
• a standardized show banner
  • FEATURE: add the startup time to $nu #8353
  • REFACTOR: move the banner from the rust source to the standard library #8406
• a "sys" module to interact with the system in a structured way
• a "trash" module to interact with the XDG standard trash with rm --trash inside $env.XDG_DATA_HOME | path join Trash
• has-env is often asked for i think
• and also some miscellaneous commands: clip, history stats and history search, maybe watch cpu
  • add a cross platform clip command to the standard library #8695
• i have a shell_prompt setup work-in-progress to allow designing the prompt in a friendly way
• a path add extension to add a file extension to a path

👉 from the official community nu_scripts

Note
there are a lot of things in these scripts, so i've focused on the top-level directory names only, pre-selecting the ones that look that post promising to me at the moment 😋

• base16
• filesystem
• maths
• prompt
• strings

i think that's all for now.
i'm curious about what you think of all this 😌

• i'll mark the ones that do not deserve the standard library as "won't fix" and tick them
• i can start working on the ones you think would be great in the standard library
• let me know if i forgot some ideas and i'll add them to the task list

cheers 👋