> I don't think you understand how minimalist Golang is... the std lib only has room for anything you would ever need for a web service including a full web server, builtins like hashmaps, a bunch of things for concurrent programming like channels, go routines, etc.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm.

If it isn't, I don't see how what you've mentioned is minimalistic or how adding an option type would be against Go's identity.