As a counter argument I would point to C, C++ and Lua as examples of languages that try to keep a basic generic standard library and let everything else fall ou

As a counter argument I would point to C, C++ and Lua as examples of languages that try to keep a basic generic standard library and let everything else fall out in third party libraries. I consider Go more in line with the C family then with the scripting languages like Python etc, With a slightly bigger stdlib.