[skybrian]

Maybe it sounds like condescension. I was in the same place at the beginning. No exceptions? No generics? Heresy. How dare you Go people ignore my many years of experience? I wrote a few rants to the mailing list, which were basically ignored.

The reason I assume you haven't used Go much is that your examples of problems with checking stuff in aren't examples of problems happening in Go. It's an analogy with other languages and other environments. Such arguments don't seem to get very far.

Maybe it won't scale and something will have to give. I expect the Go maintainers will find their own solution when it happens, and it won't look like Maven or traditional shared libraries. (If anything, it might be by replacing Git/hg with something that scales better.)