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Have you ever noticed that 99%+ of Go libraries are pulled from Github?

• Yokohiii 8y ago
  Do they rely on github or on git? But it hardly matters. Github is an centralized interface to git, but the repos themselves are not centralized.
  • ofrzeta 8y ago
    Either you or I don't understand. Of course Git is a decentralized VCS but how would you make use of a software module without offering a repo on some server? As someone remarked in answer to another of your comments: Github is centralized as well - but it's doesn't specialize in offering versioned binary artifacts for ease use in a software project.
    • dvlsg 8y ago
      And if you rely on one of my packages and I delete it from github or make it private, your build stops working, right? Everyone was up in arms about npm allowing this a few months back. Rightfully so, I think, but I feel like it's going to be easy to hit this issue when pulling straight from github.
  • wild_preference 8y ago
    I don’t understanding the distinction you’re making. Most package managers I’ve used can point at mirrors. Even NPM can point at arbitrary local git branches, file paths, and remote locations. So “centralization: bad, git: good” seems like an irrelevant point.