You hit the nail with Go's initial purpose. That not only explains the high quality of the std lib in terms of http, but also the lower quality in other areas.

You hit the nail with Go's initial purpose. That not only explains the high quality of the std lib in terms of http, but also the lower quality in other areas. By the way: You still need a DB driver with Go. They just provide an interface, which is cumbersome and error prone to use. That's why the community package sqlx exists. To create a hello world in Rust, one just needs to add two crates, which in terms pull many other crates. So yes, too many total deps for my taste, but an Axum server is much more feature full than a server build with Go's std lib.