[chimeracoder]

Between the new default GOPATH and the support for vendoring, I'm not sure I know what getting rid of the GOPATH would even mean anymore.

As a Go programmer since the 1.0 days, the concept of the GOPATH that existed when I started using the language is long gone.

[rem7]

vendor still doesn't work if your project is outside of GOPATH. The only thing the vendor folder is doing right now is precedence. Dep, the pre-alpha tool that is lining up to be the official dependency manager still doesn't work outside the GOPATH, hopefully they change that. The only thing that Go 1.8 did was add a default to GOPATH to $HOME/go.

In my ideal world, I should be able to clone a go project anywhere on my system, fetch the dependencies from the internet, yes the internet, because its 2017. (if you're that concerned with security fine, include them in your repo) but I should be able to call go build in that directory wherever it is.