Comment by Merovius
5 hours ago
> But, like, this is exactly as easy with every single other language that I can think of.
I mean, not exactly. Rust (or rather Cargo) requires you to declare binaries in your Cargo.toml, for example. It also, AIUI, requires a specific source layout - binaries need to be named `main.rs` or be in `src/bin`. It's a lot more ceremony and it has actively annoyed me whenever I tried out Rust.
> The second part "Running go install at the root ./.." is actually terrible and risky but, still, trivial with make (a - literally - 50 year old program) or shell or just whatever.
Again, no, it is not trivial. Using make requires you to write a Makefile. Using shell requires you to write a shell script.
I'm not saying any of this is prohibitive - or even that they should convince anyone to use Go - but it is just not true to say that other languages make this just as easy as Go.
I think one other major part is that, compared to e.g. make the build process is more-or-less the same for all Go projects. There is some variation, and some (newcomers I want to think) still like to wrap go commands into Makefile, but it's still generally very easy to understand and very uniform across different Go projects