Honestly, this is the problem most people bring up with Go, and I think it's a non-problem. The standard library you link to is only the tip of the iceburg. Git

Honestly, this is the problem most people bring up with Go, and I think it's a non-problem. The standard library you link to is only the tip of the iceburg. Github and the other popular DVCS websites contain tons of high quality packages to do pretty much anything you want - ORMs, math and science, encryption and security, emulators, servers, parsers etc. I think most people who say "there aren't enough libraries for it" haven't actually looked. If there's something truly missing, point it out. But I think it'll be hard to do.