[reificator]

> There's no reason to rush things now.

Golang is hurting right now because of this issue. In fact this and the lack of a canonical GUI approach are the only two caveats I have when suggesting the use of Go.

I'm not saying to rush, but the constant churn in this space needs to end as soon as it can. For a language with as much of a focus on simplicity and stability as Go, it's embarrassing that this has been an issue for so long.

I have been using Go professionally[0] starting sometime between 1.1 and 1.4 and in that time I have something like 4-5 different ways of handling dependencies in my repositories based on when those projects were started and/or last overhauled. Each time I changed my approach I was following the current best practices, or so I believed. It's madness, and it has to end sometime.

[0]: Started playing with it in 2009, in fun projects I'll use whatever works and/or is fun and/or gets the job done soonest. In professional projects I'm much slower to adopt new tools.

[sagichmal]

> Golang is hurting right now because of this issue.

Go was hurting _three years ago_ because of this issue. The pain was tractable and critical. The community made a thorough and good-faith attempt to end the churn with `dep` -- which was summarily dismissed, ignored in part and whole.

I don't see why `vgo` should get the fast track now, when the core team has been dragging their feet on the issue for years.

[reificator]

> The community made a thorough and good-faith attempt to end the churn with `dep` -- which was summarily dismissed, ignored in part and whole.

I've used `dep` on a few projects and I don't mind it. If that's what we use that's fine with me.

> I don't see why `vgo` should get the fast track now, when the core team has been dragging their feet on the issue for years.

I think you misunderstand my point. I'm not throwing my weight behind `vgo`, I'm throwing my weight behind making a long term decision of any kind.

I get that it's important to take your time and get things right. That way you can avoid starting down one path and wasting everyone's time, then switching and declaring that everyone follow you down this one, and so on, and so on...

Oh wait - that happened anyway.