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I feel people gave Golang attention because it was a good language. It also has the best standard library I’ve ever seen.

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Like a standard library that doesn't even have a max function for integers, or a set type?

It is trivial to write both of these on your own, why do we need unnecessary abstraction for such a simple task.

Sorting, appending to a slice, or removing from the middle of a slice are all awkward and bad in Go.

That's the ethos of Go. The standard library can be poor and woefully incomplete because hey it's easy to reinvent the wheel. And then instead of composing functions (say, a reduce function applied to max to find the max of a sequence), users just end up rewriting everything because it's trivial.

how easy to fuck up a max function?

Now look at the standard library and appreciate the fact that it comes with every crypto algorithm that are useful, heck it even comes with a crypto random function and a TLS implementation! Wait, it actually comes with a http(s) library. And with a json serializer/deserializer as well. Who does that?

Again that's the ethos of Go. In the many years I spent writing C++ or Python or Haskell I never had to write a max function because it's already there. I don't even need to think about it. And I can compose it easily to form more sophisticated things.

> Who does that?

Have you taken a look at the Python standard library?

I’ve never heard of anyone using crypto from the python standard library

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