I've written dozens of Go programs which use only the standard library - including very large ones. However, there are two primary areas where it is deficient (

I've written dozens of Go programs which use only the standard library - including very large ones. However, there are two primary areas where it is deficient (necessitating pulling additional packages) to my mind: - Logging - a lack of ability to do structured logging is the main downside here. - The `syscall` replacements - almost inevitably for larger projects it's necessary to pull in the x/sys/unix or x/sys/windows since package `syscall` was frozen. The lack of "wrapped" errors also used to be an issue, but this has mostly been resolved with the new "%w" formatting directive to `fmt.Errorf`.