[weberc2]

I vaguely recall wanting relative imports back when I first started dabbling with Go. Then I moved on and really have completely forgotten it was an issue.

If you want to fork a project, I'm pretty sure there's a program (gorename maybe?) that rewrites these import paths for you, but I've always just used `sed`.

I haven't used Elm, but Node's `node_modules` folder has always been a hassle. Grepping for anything is a pain, and regularly the directory seemed to just get borked so you'd have to `rm -rf $(find . -name node_modules) && npm install`. I don't want to overstate this problem; Node wasn't what I had in mind when I was thinking of difficult project conventions.

[viraptor]

Either "git grep" or configuring your ack/ag/... properly solves the search issue.

[weberc2]

Yeah, I'm sure this is fine if you're a full time Node developer. I just pop in; also I use a lot of tools besides grep and ag (for example, vim and VSCode) and having to configure every one of them is tedious. Also, IIRC if you want to make a Docker dev image with your dependencies installed (into which you mount your source code) it gets challenging to interweave your dependencies with your source files (this probably has a nicer solution; I just recall this being a pain point when we set up our Docker infrastructure). Again, I don't want to overstate the problem, I just happen to prefer dependencies out of the source tree.