As Ken Thompson [1] (the one from Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (Unix & C)) was one of the original authors of Go, I think it is safe to use the Golang Origin

As Ken Thompson [1] (the one from Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (Unix & C)) was one of the original authors of Go, I think it is safe to use the Golang Origins FAQ [2] as a source to answer this question. > Dependency management is a big part of software development today but the “header files” of languages in the C tradition are antithetical to clean dependency analysis—and fast compilation. That might be a reason to limit the use of header files to single file. In addition, I think that it is meant to make the adoption of the library easier. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson [2]: https://golang.org/doc/faq#Origins https://golang.org/doc/faq#Origins