Comment by spmurrayzzz

I've had similar experiences, but I've noticed my Node.js applications which have few-to-no dependencies behave in the same way as my Go apps in that regard. I might get some deprecation logs from Node letting me know about future changes, but generally they do just work. The apps with a heavy dependency graph are a different story however.

This is still a feather in Go's cap given the fact that the standard library offers so much out of the box. I don't find myself reaching for dependencies that often.