[majewsky]

What's the value of having sqlx in the stdlib? The only reason I could see is a social one, not a technical one (discoverability).

The Go devs did in the past include external libraries in the stdlib, the most significant one being "golang.org/x/context" moving to "context". This was a very important inclusion because it meant the stdlib could start offering context-aware APIs, and it was a signal to the rest of the ecosystem that the context API is stable forever and other packages can make their APIs context-aware without risk of future breakage. With sqlx, none of these issues arise: the main compatibility interfaces between different SQL libraries (particularly to the drivers providing support for different RDBMS) are already present in the stdlib.