Things that were in the Go standard library from the first public release (2012):

encoding/json vs

  Python: 2008, json package added in version 2.6
  .NET: 2019, System.Text.Json came with .NET Core 3.0
  JVM: still nothing

net/http client vs

  Python: gave up, "just use requests"
  .NET: also 2012, HttpClient came with .NET Framework 4.5
  JVM: 2018, HttpClient came with Java 11

The time library definitely sucks though. There's really no excuse for it, joda-time came out a long time ago.

Cherry picking examples are we?

What about actually counting the set of features across a full stack application?

I can pick countless of examples of features in Java and .NET standard library that Go 1.24 still doesn't have any answer for.

No, I don't think HTTP or JSON are cherry-picked. Depending on what kind of code you write, maybe you haven't needed them as often as I have.

Of course, plenty of high-quality third-party libraries exist in the other languages. I've used commons-httpclient and jackson in Java, and everybody and their brother knows about requests in Python (though I prefer aiohttp nowadays). But they are odd omissions from the standard libraries of those languages. At least .NET caught up.