I think you've succinctly put the issue(s) I have with Go. Most languages either have a BFDL, a committee or a corporate DFL, which is the case with golang and

I think you've succinctly put the issue(s) I have with Go. Most languages either have a BFDL, a committee or a corporate DFL, which is the case with golang and Google, and I think to a far lesser extent with C# and MS. MS in the last few years seems far more accepting of community contributions to their "core" language, whether its ideas or actual PRs. Admittedly, not all MS OSS projects are equal, there are a number of "here's the code", but it's going to be driven internally, versus a more traditionally driven mix of a primary corporate driver and OSS community contributions. One of the things I'd love to see is a bespoke cross platform DB API. I'm currently using zillow's cTDS lib, which has been great, except it can't support table valued parameters, because FreeTDS doesn't. Yet pytds supports SVTPs, but seems to only support bulk copy via a file. I wish that MS would provide a bespoke lib that provided all of this functionality (TVPs and BCP without an intermediate file).