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Go has the poorest std lib I've ever seen.


Compared with? My reference point is python,java,clojure,c,c++. Python is huge and useful but messy and inconsistent. Java is huge and doesn't compose well. Clojure is underdocmented and hardly batteries included. C and C++ can't do anything useful without a bunch of extra libraries. From what I can see, C# is like java in this regard.

Go is a small incredibly useful and composable set of libraries that handles a vast amount of cases with a small amount of code.


I had the same feeling about Clojure, but it mostly has to do with non-standard libs. It's forced me to rely on reading source code a lot more than I did in other languages, so I'm not entirely sure that's a mark against it. I'm curious why you think that about Python, though. Care to illustrate?


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