Golang has the golang.org/x packages, which avoids too much stdlib bloat while still providing the niceties of “pre-vetted” packages that don’t pull in a massive dependency tree.

yeah I wish Node had something like that

It does! (well Deno does but you can use them in Node)

https://jsr.io/@std

support is not uniform though

eg: https://jsr.io/@std/dotenv