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Tell me one other language, a single one, that has this in its standard library:

- hex / base64 / json / xml / etc.

- TLS (1.3) / x509 / aes-gcm / sha-2/sha-3 / X25519 / ECDSA / ed25519 / crypto.rand

- http / html templates / json-rpc / etc.

- big integer math

- zip

There's just so much more, and the documentation is top notch: https://golang.org/pkg/

Actually, this is just my take on what I end up using, but what's your own favorite package in Golang std lib :D?

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C# on DotNet will have most of it? Java probably too?

Java does not have http server, json, html template as part of std.

Java has had an Http Server implementation included in it since 1.6 (the "since" attribute on the page)

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/jre/api/net/httpserver...

But there's a downside to putting things like that in the standard library. Python also went for a "batteries included approach" but it hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows. There's a reason why the Python standard library is known as the place where modules go to die: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to-di...

Javascript has all of that minus some of the crypto stuff. They introduced BigInt in ES2020. JS has built in json, Node has built-in tls/http.

Javascript has a built in crypto library now too. Mind you, Go’s standard library is way better designed than javascript’s. A lot of Javascript’s API is an inconsistent mess. (Eg btoa, new TextDecoder().decode(str), string.length, etc.)

Erlang, doesn't has json rpc tho, but a whole cluster technology and rpc if u really wanted it

C# has it and much more.

> hex / base64 / json / xml

Literally everyone. Go is not exactly a stand-out XML handler either.

> TLS (1.3) / x509 / aes-gcm / sha-2/sha-3 / X25519 / ECDSA / ed25519 / crypto.rand

The prevailing idea even within the Go community today is that probably too much of that is exposed and instead the stdlib should be focusing on higher-level primitives.

> http / html templates / json-rpc

Go's HTTP stack is very good. Most languages do have a worse one, though.

The templating language is interesting, I'm glad it's there, but I think there will be widespread dissatisfaction among developers coming from other languages within in the next few years and you'll see it languish in favor of a 3rd party library. I would not choose a language based on its stdlib templates (and if I did I'd choose Perl).

I bet they will come to regret jsonrpc in stdlib.

> big integer math, zip

Table stakes.

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