[marcus_holmes]

I think Go de-emphasises the ecosystem a lot.

Generally gophers just use the standard library as much as possible. There isn't the usual set of "must-have" dependencies, and generally speaking when a gopher tries to solve a problem, the first step isn't to search for a 3rd party library that solves it for them.

Obviously this is a broad generalisation and there are plenty of gophers who swear by using one or more libraries, and there are plenty of gophers who do rely on third-paarty dependencies. But this is still noticeably less prevalent than in many other languages, especially the more popular ones in web dev.

As others have said, it also helps that Go code is easy to read and emphasises simplicity. The code is often more readable than the documentation, for sure. Whether you consider this bad documentation is up to you ;)