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It’s extensive, web server focused, ergonomic and has well documented and sensible security defaults.

In Go you can write a production ready, well tested, _concurrent_ web application with routing, auth, sql storage, html templating, image optimization, and so on without fetching third party libraries. And you’re not leaving official docs for it.

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Almost. The sql package is just an abstract layer which requires a 3rd party module to provide the concretions. I guess the API is the same, but you still need a 3rd party lib :)

Most people don’t use the flags package either and opt for 3rd party, like cobra.

> with routing Don't you need some 3rd party lib for that (if you don't want to implement your own router)?

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