> I have yet to not experience that standard libraries turn into very stale and outdated things relatively quickly that carries an enormous maintenance burden
Maybe. I think .NET's core libs are excellent. So are Go's. I'm sure it's a maintenance burden, but man... It's so nice to be able to build a project with maybe 1-2 dependencies instead of 100s (as in my typical Node and Ruby projects, if you count transitive dependencies). It's hard to overstate how much of a strength I think a good stdlib is.
Maybe. I think .NET's core libs are excellent. So are Go's. I'm sure it's a maintenance burden, but man... It's so nice to be able to build a project with maybe 1-2 dependencies instead of 100s (as in my typical Node and Ruby projects, if you count transitive dependencies). It's hard to overstate how much of a strength I think a good stdlib is.