[lobster_johnson]

That's what I'm doing these days. But it's painful.

It means I have to run full commands such as "go install <my package>" or "go get <some package>". To install all dependencies, I have to do "go get <my package>".

If I want to work on a project that depends on other projects that haven't been pushed to master yet, I have to clone those projects and symlink them in manually. It's pretty painful.

Working with certain tools that assume a certain directory structure (protoc, for example, which computes paths relative to your Go root) is also painful.

"go build ." does work.

"No worse than virtualenv" isn't exactly a rousing endorsement. It's one of the poorer package-management systems out there. Go should be as simple and easy as Bundler. There's no excuse these days, I think.

[wallyhs]

You omitted that from your comment, but I agree. I was just pointing out the option, because it didn't sound as if you had tried it.

I did not mean to endorse anything.

[lobster_johnson]

Yeah, sorry. I have been trying different things. Not happy. But at least it seems that I'm not alone in being dissatisfied. It's surprising because Go does a lot of things right, and disappointing because it's such a brake on productivity.