I mean, I get what you're saying, but the fact is 1. Golang is used in web and api servers 2. Json is the lingua franca of data for the web, so golang does a

I mean, I get what you're saying, but the fact is 1. Golang is used in web and api servers 2. Json is the lingua franca of data for the web, so golang does a lot of json processing 2. The golang stdlib json packages haven't had much attention in the last decade I was just thinking recently that my biggest pain point with the upstream JSON packages was the fact that you can't add easily add custom marshal / unmarshal code to objects in a package you don't control. I'm actually really excited about this change. The other reason this is at the top of the list, of course, is that there are no major interesting language features being added. This is a combination of the fact that golang is a pretty mature language, and the slowness of the team to adding new language features; both of which I appreciate.