Thread by @sdboyer: "i'm finally ready to share my personal story about this whole dependency management process. Consider it a counterpoint to the story […]" #golang

Personal website of Ukiah Smith

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.