In practice (e.g. Go) it’s actually pretty good and infinitely preferable to third party everything.

Yeah, it's annoying to have good support for dates in Java since 2014, instead of only getting it now like in JS.

Works just fine in Go.

I think we found the constituency that led to the present sorry situation.

That's rather rude.

If you're referring to my packages on npm, I joined way late to that game. This was also ~15 years ago.