I disagree with your characterization. `go get` is the right tool for new developers (hell, I've been using Go for 7 years and I still use `go get` for the init

I disagree with your characterization. `go get` is the right tool for new developers (hell, I've been using Go for 7 years and I still use `go get` for the initial phase of my projects); they don't need reproducible builds, they need to install third party libraries and compile code. The current official reproducible build tooling in Go is vendoring, and that's quite unnecessarily painful for the things new developers need to do. Fortunately, Go 1.11 will be out soon with support for modules, so new developers can learn how to install code with the added bonus of not needing to learn a new set of tools down the road when they need to care about reproducibility.