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> I have yet to come across a go project that doesn't pull in tons of 3rd party code as well.

These have Zero dependencies. It's not rare in Go land.

- https://github.com/go-chi/chi 19k stars

- https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter 16k stars

- https://github.com/gorilla/mux 21k stars

- https://github.com/spf13/pflag 2.6k stars

- https://github.com/google/uuid 5.6k starts

Many others have just a few dependencies.