> go get has never claimed to be versioning solution so > while I understand why people make shallow comparisons > to pip/npm/cpan and assume that it does a

> go get has never claimed to be versioning solution so > while I understand why people make shallow comparisons > to pip/npm/cpan and assume that it does and complain that > it does it badly (including this article), the reality is > that go get is not a versioning tool at all. The claim is that by not also solving versioning, go get is an incomplete tool. Stating that it was never intended to solve versioning is kind of beside the point.