[threatofrain]

I think that Go can pull off a good standard library because there's a big corporate sponsor behind it, whereas Ruby may have had difficulty with its standard library for the lack of a sponsor.

Standard doesn't mean completely done. Standard should be able to accomodate things like HTTP2, as Go has done, whether that means expanding the API or whatever.

[tibbe]

The "big corporate sponsor" argument often comes up when discussing language success. Google doesn't really put more than a few people's time into Go, the rest is open source. Other languages like Python didn't have any real backing until way after success.

[pjmlp]

Guido and a few other core developers were employed to work full time on Python for quite some time, even before it became successful.