I worked mainly in web dev for almost 2 decades now and having programmed both with Rust and Go, my vote would be to default for Rust, so I guess you everyone's

I worked mainly in web dev for almost 2 decades now and having programmed both with Rust and Go, my vote would be to default for Rust, so I guess you everyone's mileage may vary. Also the argument about the stdlib is kind of weird. It's a deliberate choice to keep the stdlib small, also because adding a new package to the projects takes a few seconds. If you were tasked to do a web backend with a limitation of "you can't use any external libraries" then yeah, I'd say Go might be easier, but otherwise there's almost no difference in practice