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by lagniappe 237 days ago
>golang.org/x/ is stuff that should be in the standard library but isn't, for some reason

think of it as testing/staging before being merged into stable stdlib

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I do believe it’s backwards compatibility and evolving APIs
Except that it's a little bit too convenient, and highly useful things like errgroup stay there instead of having been adopted into the stdlib.