[gkya]

GOPATH is one weird thing that I have never been able to justify to myself when trying out Go. I keep all my code under ~/co, I clone others' repos under ~/co/External, many times I clone sth. to /tmp first, and move to ~/co/External if I see fit. Then this language comes around and says "well, that's not how you're supposed to do it, or you'll have to set this variable every time". Just good riddance.

> I'm also interested in seeing if there's any wider adoption of these ideas in the larger package management ecosphere.

If I'm not mistaken, isn't most of this how things work already? The minimal versioning algorithm may be novel, but things like locking dependency versions, no weird preconceptions on where you put code, easily caching dependencies etc. are nothing new in the greater programming community. But whatever, I'm happy that Go's taking this path.