I’m normally a fan of the rigidity within the Go toolchain. In fact, we use Go on the front and backend at Qvault. It’s wonderful to have standardized formatting, vetting, and testing across the entire language. The first real criticism I’ve had is with the way Go modules handle major versions. It’s over-the-top opinionated and slows down development in a significant number of scenarios.

Refresher on “Go Mod”

Go modules, and the associated commands go mod and go get can be thought of as Go’s equivalents to NPM and Yarn. The Go toolchain provides a way to manage dependencies and lock the versions that a collection of code depends on.

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