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tkiolp4·Mar 4, 2022

In the source file one could just say import “username/module” And in the go.mod file the whole URL can stay require github.com/username/module v1.2.3 I only see advantages with this approach and I imagine it’s a rather “easy to add” feature that can be even backwards compatible.

In Go’s major versioning sucks – From a fanboy

zht·Mar 4, 2022

sorry is github.com/username/module is much worse than com.arbitrary.x.y.z ?

In Go’s major versioning sucks – From a fanboy

jmyeet·Mar 4, 2022

I like Go but Go has made some serious misteps (IMHO), which the author touches on. Dependency management in Go is so incredibly bad it's hard to fathom. Did no one on the early design team ever deal with depenencies? Java is so much better here and came years earlier. Go would've been so much better had they just copied any of the Java options from Day One. So this versioning thing is just weird and I agree with the author. It's a strange thing to have opinions on and an even stranger opinion to have on that thing. But the thing that gets me is the whole putting "github.com/username/module" into code is just awful.

In Go’s major versioning sucks – From a fanboy