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Vendoring is also a practice that Google and other large tech companies use extensively. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

• pjmlp 12y ago
  My C, C++ and Java Ant scars in Fortune 500 consulting projects tell me otherwise.
  • dsymonds 12y ago
    That's fine. Some do it badly, and some do it well.
    • pjmlp 12y ago
      So why is Google moving away from Ant to Gradle in Android, while having Pub Packages for Dart? Does not seem very supportive of vendoring.
      • dsymonds 12y ago
        I don't know anything about Android or Dart development, so I can't speak for them. All I can say is that internal Google development has been happily using vendoring of third-party code for many years (and not just C/C++ code), so I'm confident in saying that vendoring Go code can work just fine for "boring closed source enterprise commercial library tooling".