Yes, go decided to wait to let the various competing systems duke it out in much the same way that node.js left it out for a while. I use git as my dependency

Yes, go decided to wait to let the various competing systems duke it out in much the same way that node.js left it out for a while. I use git as my dependency management. I pull a specific version of a golang dependency and put it into my private git repository. Then i don't have to worry about someone's github getting hacked, repositories getting deleted, etc... Those problems have all happened with npm and github in the node ecosystem. Go solves these problems by allowing you to decide on how to manage your dependencies.