[joerichey]

Take a look at the dep[1] tool. It allows you to ship your project with all of its dependencies included. This means that only your source is needed to build your application/package.

The Gopkg.toml/Gopkg.lock files in dep are quite similar to Rust's Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock files. I think it's a good move as Rust has probably the best package management story out there.

Also, as the other comment mentioned, github.com is not "special" in any way. Any website with a git repo will work just as well. In fact, some key libraries are served from golang.org/x/<whatever>[2] not github.com.

[1]https://github.com/golang/dep [2]https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SubRepositories