Standard library packages are not the same thing as the language and are not mentioned in the Go specification. The standard library is just a collection of pac

Standard library packages are not the same thing as the language and are not mentioned in the Go specification. The standard library is just a collection of packages that implement common functionalities that might otherwise lead to multiple competing implementations (like hyper, tiny_http, rotor-http, and solicit in Rust). Including a plugin mechanism is not an endorsement of that style of architecture, but simply an acknowledgement that there are programs that will need plugins.