Re:The Value in Go’s Simplicity
by blondin on Saturday November 16, 2019 @10:46AM
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i agree with you. go is not the simple language its creators wanted. and i feel like it's only going to get more complex from here on.
for example, i couldn't get a library to work the other day because of one of the dependencies needed a specific version of another library but "go get" (1.13.4) was getting utterly confused.
i never looked into the modules thing and i found that there is a 4 parts series of articles on the official blog explaining modules are and why we need it. i just gave up at that point and decided to manually copy the version i wanted to the $GOHOME/src folder and it got me going...
for example, i couldn't get a library to work the other day because of one of the dependencies needed a specific version of another library but "go get" (1.13.4) was getting utterly confused.
i never looked into the modules thing and i found that there is a 4 parts series of articles on the official blog explaining modules are and why we need it. i just gave up at that point and decided to manually copy the version i wanted to the $GOHOME/src folder and it got me going...