[dimonomid]

First of all, what are other examples of "Rust empowers the developer, Go protects the developer from themselves"? As article mentions, Rust as a language is actually must stricter than Go, C++ and many others, and Rust community likes to brag that by restricting what we can do in safe Rust, we end up with better software. And I agree with that. But when it comes to dependency management, Rust turns out to be surprisingly lax.

Also, in this case, Go doesn't exactly protect the developer from anything. One could create a single package with tons of files in them, and it'll keep working. But the way Go package system is designed, it just subtly suggests to the developer that it's not the right thing to do: having a package (i.e. directory) with 200+ files in it just feels wrong by default. One trait of a well-designed system is that it's difficult to abuse.