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by dpkirchner 1262 days ago
This is an argument for maintaining a local cache of necessary build dependencies, not to rely on a third party.
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Before the proxy service that is what people did. Now we don't need to because the proxy service handles that automatically.

You can run your own proxy service if you want. There's a large benefit to the go community as a whole for there to be a shared default proxy service.