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That attitude assumes that the go standard library is the global maximum for Getting Stuff Done, and because of backwards compatibility guarantees ensures that it’s difficult to innovate on.

I think having a small standard library is actually a good thing because it encourages exploration of the space of possibilities.

For example Go’s stdlib http.HandlerFunc sucks, people instead opt for leaving it behind entirely in favour of Gin or trying to work around it with bad patterns like interface smuggling.