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Comment by iknowstuff

4 days ago

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.