> fmt.Println pulling in 300KB isn't proof that Go's standard library isn't "well modularized". It's the wonders of Unicode and other code that is actually used

> fmt.Println pulling in 300KB isn't proof that Go's standard library isn't "well modularized". It's the wonders of Unicode and other code that is actually used. I would guess a large part is that it has to pull in the entire reflection library to support format verbs like %#v which renders the argument as a Go literal.