[benhoyt]

> This is at least the biggest release since 1.18 with generics, possibly bigger.

I sort of see what you're saying, but then again, the addition of a couple of small generic packages (slices, map, cmp) and one larger package (log/slog) isn't exactly a huge amount of new surface area. Definitely not as big a qualitative change as generics themselves, which added I think it was about 30% more content to the Go spec.

> The slog package ... I wonder why they’re adding this now.

Because it's very useful to a ton of people, especially in the server/service world where Go is heavily used. To avoid a 3rd party dependency. To provide a common structured logging "backend" interface. See more at https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/56345-s...

I agree we can be enthusiastic, but the Go team is still spending a lot of time getting APIs right, finding solutions that fit well together, and so on. I don't think it's the downward spiral of "let's pull in everything" we've seen in P̶y̶t̶h̶o̶n̶ some other languages.