> There are quite a lot of open source programs written in Go out there that currently say to install them with 'go get ...' in their READMEs and other resource

> There are quite a lot of open source programs written in Go out there that currently say to install them with 'go get ...' in their READMEs and other resources. My experience is that a fair number of these utilities are broken anyway, because they rely on "go get" to fetch dependencies, and the dependencies they use have changed too much. (Yes, that shouldn't happen, but it does happen, and it's one of the major problems that go.mod fixes. You can shame library authors for making backwards-incompatible changes, but that won't fix your tools.)