My point isn't really an argument about what does and does not need to be in the standard library, as much fun as that may be to argue about. My point is really in that first sentence: "You don't need official Go support for JSON5."
Whether the Go team agrees with you or not about any particular library, you do not need to wait around. The standard library does not get any particular special access, with the exception of a couple of very special packages (unsafe, reflect). Things outside of the standard library can have all the properties you're talking about being good, and they're available now, without needing to get an entire language team to sign off on it.
Whether the Go team agrees with you or not about any particular library, you do not need to wait around. The standard library does not get any particular special access, with the exception of a couple of very special packages (unsafe, reflect). Things outside of the standard library can have all the properties you're talking about being good, and they're available now, without needing to get an entire language team to sign off on it.