> The Go standard library is full of things that do exactly what you want them to, whereas in other languages you have to manually do it yourself. No. Python:

> The Go standard library is full of things that do exactly what you want them to, whereas in other languages you have to manually do it yourself. No. Python: toCheck.startswith(prefix) JavaScript: toCheck.startsWith(prefix) Haskell: prefix `isPrefixOf` toCheck What other languages does Go compete with that don't have a "string starts with" in their standard library. Since I feel I've proven my point about all other languages Go competes with having this function, what other helpful functions do you think Go has that it's competitors do not?