Comment by poly2it
4 days ago
Go is also famous for encouraging a culture of keeping down dependency count while exposing a simple to use package manager and ecosystem.
4 days ago
Go is also famous for encouraging a culture of keeping down dependency count while exposing a simple to use package manager and ecosystem.
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-... this article made the rounds here after the author pulled the thread on dependencies in Go
That's pulling on a dependency. An ugly case, but a very specific one relating to a tricky backwards-incompatible change that the Go team fudged on back in the pre-module times.
That story doesn't generally speak to the reality that most Go packages have rather small dependency graphs.