I greatly respect the Go community for subscribing to the language and ecosystem's opinionatedness, and resisting attempts to relax these rules and conventions.

I greatly respect the Go community for subscribing to the language and ecosystem's opinionatedness, and resisting attempts to relax these rules and conventions. It's not for everyone, I know, but that's the banner they champion, and it works for them. But, I can't support the attitude voiced in this blog post, that uses the technical realities of Go's broken out-of-the-box package management to justify a culture of NIH [1][2]. This is warped logic. Are outside dependencies a liability? Yes! You weigh your risks before you rely on someone else's code. Does Go provide sub-par support for reproducible builds and dependency management out-of-the-box? Yes! But others in the community [3][4] have stepped up to bring Go packaging up to the standards that other languages' developers have come to expect. [1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NotInventedHere http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NotInventedHere [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/18tNd8r5DV0yluCR7tPvkMTsWD_lYcRO7NhpNSDymRr8 https://docs.google.com/document/d/18tNd8r5DV0yluCR7tPvkMTsW... [4] https://github.com/Masterminds/glide https://github.com/Masterminds/glide