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The Saga of Go Dependency Management
blog.gopheracademy.comThe Saga of Go Dependency Management The Go community is on the cusp of some major shifts in the way we handle dependencies. These shifts are a long time coming, and involve the work and effort of dozens, if not hundreds, of people.
A gentle introduction to Golang Modules
Go 1.11 introduced a new concept of Modules which brings first class support for managing dependency versions and enabling reproducible builds. Go previously had no notion of dependency versions, and it has been a long and arduous road to get where we are now. Modules do not just copy the style of other programming language’s dependency tools, rather it introduces a few slightly different concepts intended to enable programming in the large. These require some thought in order to fully utilize the features provided by these new concepts.