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by codygman 3596 days ago
> The Go standard library is full of things that do exactly what you want them to, whereas in other languages you have to manually do it yourself.

No.

Python: toCheck.startswith(prefix)

JavaScript: toCheck.startsWith(prefix)

Haskell: prefix `isPrefixOf` toCheck

What other languages does Go compete with that don't have a "string starts with" in their standard library.

Since I feel I've proven my point about all other languages Go competes with having this function, what other helpful functions do you think Go has that it's competitors do not?