Regarding Go and package management, I'd say that Go doesn't have that issue yet because there really is no package management outside of using mercurial or got

Regarding Go and package management, I'd say that Go doesn't have that issue yet because there really is no package management outside of using mercurial or got repositories. They are working on vendorizing those in a one way fashion and expect, as a Go programmer, that there will be am explosion of drift in due time. As you stated, "I think this is merely a result of a language becoming popular and having a robust community of developers." I couldn't have put it more succinctly.