On: Experimental Dependency Vendoring in Go 1.5

[_skel]

> I don't understand why Go is so insistent that dependency management is something for the community to solve

The expectation that every new language should come with a dependency management ecosystem is a bit questionable. A lot of major languages' dependency management solutions were created by the community:

Java: Maven, Gradle

Python: PIP

Ruby: Gems

Node.js: NPM

Some of these have been adopted by the official language maintainers, but as far as I know, they originated in the community.

[coldtea → _skel]

The problem is that Go implements a half-arsed way of dependency management (go get) and enforces things like GOPATH that clash with community created solutions.