I was about to ask the same, then after some thinking about it, came to the conclusion that he doesn't like to be forced to save all Go libraries under $GOPATH.

I was about to ask the same, then after some thinking about it, came to the conclusion that he doesn't like to be forced to save all Go libraries under $GOPATH. Now with Go 1.11 you can have "modules" that you can put all over the place. Much more freedom, right? :) https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules