I think Go is pretty competitive with Python's standard library. It doesn't have an FTP client (we use and are happy with github.com/jlaffaye/ftp) or an equiva

I think Go is pretty competitive with Python's standard library. It doesn't have an FTP client (we use and are happy with github.com/jlaffaye/ftp) or an equivalent to imaplib (although github.com/mxk/go-imap/imap looks interesting), but for the rest of our workload Go has everything we need.