I use vendoring in Go because my team's builds happen within a huge, complicated corporate network that has been known to break arbitrarily in new and interesti

I use vendoring in Go because my team's builds happen within a huge, complicated corporate network that has been known to break arbitrarily in new and interesting ways (or rather when something gets changed unexpectedly and then it takes days/weeks to navigate outsourced IT and change it back). Vendoring deps doesn't save me all the time, but I've generally found it helps. Plus builds are a bit quicker because I can download everything in one go (via git clone) rather than pulling everything in at build time. It also helps when the linter decides it wants all the dependencies downloaded before doing anything and then we find it has a relatively short timeout when the network gains a lot of latency without notice. On reflection, it seems more like I'm papering over network issues. Perks of working in an enterprise company I guess.