[marcus_holmes]

Go has always optimised for build speed. I guess they considered dependency resolution as part of the build process.

Which it technically is, I suppose, but when you're coding and iterating the code-build-run loop you generally don't need to add new dependencies each time. And that's when the build speed matters, of course.

[pcx]

And, most CIs cache build dependencies these days which is an easy work around.