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Love Go. But this is yet another case where language creators opted out of standardizing something they should have. The community is left to fend for themselves and squabble over naming conventions and boilerplate.

The golang-standards/project-layout repo is the inevitable outcome. An over-engineered land grab (let's call it what it is). But 11k stars is a decent indicator of Go programmers wanting some kind of authoritative standard so they don't need to re-organize their now-small but tomorrow-large projects over and over.

A recent issue that parallels this one is package management. So many monstrosities came out of that until go modules was formalized :P