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by geezerjay 2858 days ago
> Eh, it wasn’t the best, but it was still better than any other language’s equivalent except for Rust’s.

I disagree. Gopath was the most brain-dead idea being implemented in a current programming language. It handled the problem in a far worse manner than any other programming language in current use. This problem was then made far worse by the way the language developers insisted in forcing it upon go users in spite of all the repeated compains.

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Really there are relatively few complaints from Go users. Most people just read the paragraph explaining how GOPATH works and get to work. Most of the complaints come from outside of the community--people who are frustrated that Go doesn't copy their favorite language's project files, build tools, project structure, etc. Anyway, since you don't have any actual criticism of GOPATH (just that it's "braindead" and "far worse"), I can't really do much except disagree, because GOPATH was already quite a lot nicer than the equivalent in most other languages, and modules makes it even better!