Nitpick: Go's yacc is part of the standard Go distribution, every Go installation has it. But it doesn't matter, go generate can indeed use programs a user migh

Nitpick: Go's yacc is part of the standard Go distribution, every Go installation has it. But it doesn't matter, go generate can indeed use programs a user might not have. But you know what, that doesn't matter either, it's true for shell scripts and it's true for makefiles as well. Go generate changes nothing in that respect, however, it does improve portability significantly in other ways. For example, in the Go tree we replaced shell scripts with go generate and perl scripts with go code called by go generate. This is important because Windows and Plan 9 don't have bourne shells, Plan 9 doesn't have perl at all and in Windows perl has to be installed. Note that there are no makefiles, which don't exist natively on Windows and Plan 9 either.