People are always quick to criticize GOPATH but when you look at other similar languages (not JIT "scripting" languages but competing ones like Java and C++) th

People are always quick to criticize GOPATH but when you look at other similar languages (not JIT "scripting" languages but competing ones like Java and C++) then Go is actually reasonably good in terms of the difficulty of its tools. I think the problem with Go is that it's attracted a lot of developers from languages like Python where you just install the runtime and a shebang at the top for the code then call it as if it were a native ELF. No AOT language can work that simply. But given a choice between makefiles and the Go CLI, I'd take the Go design every time.