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by cflewis 2228 days ago
The Go tool builds Go on a package by package basis. It won't help you with anything else. As soon as you need to build anything that isn't Go, or you need to do some pre/post-flight work, or you need to push artifacts etc etc etc the Go tool can't help.

As the blog post notes, Makefiles are the usual weapon of choice for Go projects of any sufficient complexity, but these are quickly outgrown.