Yep.. say you wanted to make a simple http service that needs to

* request a json.gz file from another HTTP service * decompress it * deserialize the json, transform it a bit

That's net/http (and maybe crypto/tls), compress/gzip, encoding/json. I need to make zero decisions to get the thing off the ground. Are they the best libraries in the world for those things? no.. but will they work just fine for almost every use case.