alt Hacker NewsGolang lack of support for basic stuff like this is quite annoying.
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the idea of what 'batteries included' means has changed a lot in the past twenty years, and like most Go quirks , probably Google just didn't need <missing-things>.
UUID is just array of 16 bytes or two 64-bit ints. Generating UUIDv4 is like few lines of code. Is that a big deal? I don't think so.
What stuff do you have in mind?
I was disappointed by Go's poor support for human-focused logging. The log module is so basic that one might as well just use Printf. The slog module technically offers a line-based handler, but getting a traditional format out of it is painful at best, it lacks features that are common elsewhere, and it's somehow significantly slower than the json handler. I can only guess that it was added as an afterthought, by someone who doesn't normally do that kind of logging.
To be fair, I suppose this might make sense if Go is intended only for enterprisey environments. I often do projects outside of those environments, though, so I ended up spending a lot of time on a side quest to build what I expected to be built-in.
I haven't explored enough of the stdlib yet to know what else that I might expect is not there. If you have a wish list, would you care to share it?
Go has one of the best stdlibs of any language. I'd go as far and say it's the #1 language where the stdlib is the most used for day to day programming. cut the bullshit
It makes you look on GitHub for implementations, which later can be hijacked and used for malicious reasons
What's the language you're thinking of that has more of these decisions fixed in the standard library? I know it's not Ruby, Python, Rust, or Javascript. Is it Java? I don't think this is something Elixir does better.