Is the Go ecosystem really that much better? As an outsider it looks like there's a fair amount of library use, more than I'd like.

Check out the Crush agent harness. It's very impressive.

	▲	MarsIronPI 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Impressively many dependencies? I estimate about 75-125 in the dependency tree, including multiple versions of the same package. Now compare to something written in e.g. C: such a program might have 2 dependencies: libcurl and ncurses.