What's Coming in Go 1.15

Re:What's Coming in Go 1.15 by benhoyt on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:38AM (#23163808)

Re "go new": I think part of the problem with that is that people have quite different ideas of what a good project structure is. It also varies a lot between a simple CLI tool (for which main.go and maybe go.mod is enough) and a large multi-package server project.

Can you explain what you mean by "bizarre Makefiles"? I've never used Makefiles for my (admittedly fairly small) Go projects, because "go build" just works.

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Re:What's Coming in Go 1.15 by hactually on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:48AM (#23163856)

I've seen a number of projects where the root directory is a load of other folders and then there's a Makefile and it's a kafkaesque nightmare.

I agree on the toplevel `main.go` vs the `./cmd/myapp/main.go` style needing catering for that only comes out as the project evolves... maybe it should be a go vet addition instead :D

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Re:What's Coming in Go 1.15 by stubish on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:01AM (#23164951)

Go modules are removing the need for much of the Makefile magic. You still have use of a Makefile if you need vendoring or are dealing with non-public branches, but things can be much simpler.

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