[Karunamon]

in fairness, Java has an excuse that it’s ancient in language terms and expectations were different then.

Go, not so much - it came out in 2012. Pip and CPAN and Gem had been around for years. Go’s lack of a sane packaging solution this far into its lifetime remains a serious weakness of an otherwise solid platform.

[latchkey]

One could argue that golang is a solid platform because they focused on the platform first, instead of the package management. It is all about priorities.