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As a go lover who programs in it daily... That section was fantastic, and I agree (almost) wholeheartedly.

And the select code [0] is kind of horrifying.

I am going to disagree with this, though:

> Go's native package system does not support specifying versions or commits in the dependency information. Instead, the go community recommends that each major release have its own separate repository; github.com/user/package/package-{v1,v2,v3}.

As far as I'm aware, you don't create a new repo for a new major version - just a new branch, or a subdirectory. This comment [1] from Russ Cox describes it pretty well IMO. (Though it appears that the page hasn't been updated since 2017, and Go Modules is more recent than that)

0: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/select....

1: http://disq.us/p/1qcpqao



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