> Except you're having to implement them yourself.
This is plainly wrong. All components I mentioned exist in the stdlib.
You have to glue them together yourself, sure, but that's the point of having components with separated concerns, which is usually considered a good thing in software engineering.
> There is zero reason why I should be having string together code from four different modules to accomplish this myself.
You don't. You have to use at most 2. And also, to repeat the question: who cares? Like, what is the actual downside of having to import 2 packages? I also took the liberty of looking for solutions to how to do this in other languages. Here is a Java solution, which is in line with what's requested that has 4 imports and one of them is third-party: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1096859. Here's rust code with 4 imports: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/read-a-file-line-by-line/1585. Python and Haskell get away without imports; because they just make reading files a language-builtin/part of the prelude, which TBQH is pretty cheaty.
Like, even if I'd buy into the notion that modularity and composability are bad things, it's not even as if Go would be in any way an outlier here. And even if it where then at best this is the mild complaint that no one has yet wrapped this in a ~10-line library; the language certainly does allow it, contrary to what's claimed.
I'm sorry, but this complaint is just forcibly trying to make up a problem where none exist to fit your narrative of Go being a bad language. It's not productive.
This is plainly wrong. All components I mentioned exist in the stdlib.
You have to glue them together yourself, sure, but that's the point of having components with separated concerns, which is usually considered a good thing in software engineering.
> There is zero reason why I should be having string together code from four different modules to accomplish this myself.
You don't. You have to use at most 2. And also, to repeat the question: who cares? Like, what is the actual downside of having to import 2 packages? I also took the liberty of looking for solutions to how to do this in other languages. Here is a Java solution, which is in line with what's requested that has 4 imports and one of them is third-party: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1096859. Here's rust code with 4 imports: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/read-a-file-line-by-line/1585. Python and Haskell get away without imports; because they just make reading files a language-builtin/part of the prelude, which TBQH is pretty cheaty.
Like, even if I'd buy into the notion that modularity and composability are bad things, it's not even as if Go would be in any way an outlier here. And even if it where then at best this is the mild complaint that no one has yet wrapped this in a ~10-line library; the language certainly does allow it, contrary to what's claimed.
I'm sorry, but this complaint is just forcibly trying to make up a problem where none exist to fit your narrative of Go being a bad language. It's not productive.