Rust std lib is subpar compared to the Go one, yes you have iterators but that's it, basic things like async are not even provided just the interface so everyone has to use tokyo. Then for real use cases you're missing http/json/compression/crypto etc ...
Go doesn't have a standard library problem, it has a userland language problem.
* No sum types / algebraic data types in 2022.
* No exhaustive pattern matching in 2022
* No move semantics / Uses GC
* No borrow checker
* Still suffers from nil problem / No type-safe nil / No type-safe Optionals in 2022 -- (I can show you all the nil panics in kubernetes logs if you like)
Current go users are already sold so they don't expect more, and that's fine, but further evangelism will require a better host language.
Seems a bit odd to criticize Go for using GC rather than a borrow checker to manage memory. There’s surely a place for GCed languages, even if they’re not the right choice for every domain.
I don’t mind GC. I think it’s the right choice for the sort of applications Go targets. I wish it had algebraic data types (with exhaustive pattern matching), but the “in 2022” meme is just vapid snark.
Notably, despite its shortcomings, Go is still perhaps the most productive programming language for general purpose applications. It turns out that type system features are neat, but tooling, ecosystem, simplicity, etc outrank type system features by quite a lot. Rust does very well here too, but it’s choice of borrow checker over GC amounts to trading off a lot of productivity in the general case (but it makes sense for Rust’s goals!).
I find it really curious how people consider "async" as a "basic thing". Coming from C++, asynchronous runtimes were a thing companies and large open source projects were built around. It's not at all a basic thing.
I'd argue it's almost certainly something that should NOT be in the standard library. If anything, the feature was added to Rust too quickly and has way too many rough edges.
https://pkg.go.dev/std
Overall tooling and std lib are better on Go, actually there are not many languages that are on part with Go to that regard.
When you see what you can do with the single go command, it's pretty powerful.