[eric970]

This might sound harsh, but...

Maintaining software is hard.

Blaming your own incompetence on a library or an entire language is easy.

I've been guilty of this at times, but when you get down to it, it's your job as a software developer to understand how your software works and how to maintain it well. This doesn't just include the code you write; it includes your tools, third party libraries, and the internals of the language (VM, compiler, etc.). Its not easy, but it's part of the job.

On a more positive note, versioning packages in Go is already possible and is starting to gain momentum. Check out http://www.gonuts.io/

[stdbrouw]

> it's your job as a software developer to understand how your software works and how to maintain it well

And it's the job of language (and language ecosystem) developers to make this as straightforward as possible. It's perfectly possible to blame both the author and the language.