go get does what it says and no more. It's sufficient for many large companies, esp with monorepos. Vendoring also works just fine for many uses and has the vi

go get does what it says and no more. It's sufficient for many large companies, esp with monorepos. Vendoring also works just fine for many uses and has the virtue of making dependencies explicit. Pkg management is useful if you have a large ecosystem of rapidly changing libraries with many fragile dependencies which overlap. If can encourage overuse of external code though (eg left-pad). It is not a panacea or the one true way.