I disagree. The experimental vendoring mechanism introduced in Go 1.5 is simple but powerful. In fact, it's very similar to what Node.js does with the nested no

I disagree. The experimental vendoring mechanism introduced in Go 1.5 is simple but powerful. In fact, it's very similar to what Node.js does with the nested node_modules directories. The Go team has provided the fundamental mechanism. Now, the community can provide the tooling to manage the packages and the related metadata (like npm in Node.js or pip in Python, but hopefully without the warts…).