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Yes, Ruby/Python have strong ecosystems from their 20+ years of existence. Go's third-party packages are still young by comparison. But sometimes it's good to rethink past assumptions, even if it means writing code from scratch.

The feature linked is Ruby refinements, for which much of the community was against. And note, I did not say refinements weren't wanted, clearly they were wanted by someone. I said they aren't needed.



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