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Go’s Standard Library

Go’s standard library, often described as coming with “batteries included,” provides clean building blocks and APIs for

• ‘I/O’,
• text processing,
• graphics,
• cryptography,
• networking, and
• distributed applications,
• with support for many standard file formats and protocols.

The libraries and tools

• make extensive use of convention to reduce the need for configuration and explanation,
• thus simplifying program logic and making diverse Go programs more similar to each other and thus easier to learn.