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Re:The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan D... by semi-extrinsic on Thursday March 05, 2015 @06:06PM (#9154517)
The lack of a package manager is a good thing, since this is the job of the operating system. That Windows and OSX have crappy/nonexisting package managers does not mean every language should roll its own.

If the police in your city are not doing their job, you shouldn't resort to vigilantism, you should stage a protest. Ideally.

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Re:The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan D... by shanemhansen on Thursday March 05, 2015 @08:20PM (#9155018)
Package management is the job of the operating system, but this statement doesn't make much sense for go because go binaries are statically linked to go packages. So using an OS-provided version of crypto/tls or net/http isn't really an option.

Go dependencies are basically a build-time thing.

(cgo is an exception)

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Re:The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan D... by pjmlp on Friday March 06, 2015 @02:04AM (#9155950)
Are you aware how many OSs are out there?
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