Is it that bad now in 1.6 with vendor support? And a tool like `govendor` makes it easy to stick things inside of vendor.
> it just really surprises me how little Google seems to care about the language and ecosystem
To be blunt, google's priority is google, not the open source community or other companies using golang. Dependency management wasn't a priority because of mono repo. Having said that, they are pretty good about improving things for everyone, but it will never be like a company such as Typesafe whose product is the language and tooling itself.
Is it that bad now in 1.6 with vendor support? And a tool like `govendor` makes it easy to stick things inside of vendor.
> it just really surprises me how little Google seems to care about the language and ecosystem
To be blunt, google's priority is google, not the open source community or other companies using golang. Dependency management wasn't a priority because of mono repo. Having said that, they are pretty good about improving things for everyone, but it will never be like a company such as Typesafe whose product is the language and tooling itself.