the x/ packages languish a lot, the problem is they follow a development model that slows the rate at which new contributors succeed to send patches The stdlib

the x/ packages languish a lot, the problem is they follow a development model that slows the rate at which new contributors succeed to send patches The stdlib crypto package I would describe as another of Go's big successes. OpenSSL has been a disaster for a very long time, and Go and perhaps most significantly agl managed to build and ship a very broadly exercised alternative implementation with an average very high quality, particularly from the perspective of having significantly fewer footguns in the public API.