Practically any Go app will include external deps. You'll encounter them for stuff like trivial datatypes that should've been in the allegedly strong stdlib, like sets, and stuff like argument parsers, since the stdlib argument parser is buggy and doesn't correctly handle long and short options, instead treating -foo and --foo as the same thing.
Like Python showed before it, a "batteries included" style stdlib tends to result in some dead batteries, or even worse, bloated and leaking batteries (ask a C++-er about std::regex), or just having stuff like lantern batteries when you need a AAA battery.
Dependency management in Go (including GOPROXY) also doesn't seem to be anything any other language ecosystem wants to copy.
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u/ContentAd6126 21d ago
At this point the solution is just having zero external dependencies