>But, when Go came out, there were no libraries. And it didn't get so much bad press. 1. Go had a lot going for it when it came out (single, static, exe, memor

>But, when Go came out, there were no libraries. And it didn't get so much bad press. 1. Go had a lot going for it when it came out (single, static, exe, memory safety). 2. Go's stdlib came with a lot out of the box. To the extent that you can write some fairly complicated code without touching a single library. 3. There was cgo.