Can you tell at least one specific example where they broke the standard library?
Look, maybe the stdlib is rock solid. But every time I try to build a Go project, `go build` finds ten ways not to work.
Case in point: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc
Try building this. I have no idea what's wrong with it, but it doesn't work. It's cool tech, I want it, but I don't want to immerse myself in the world of hurt^WGo just to get it.
I did however at least attempt to fix the problem: https://github.com/cretz/tor-dht-poc/pull/2
Fortunately that's changing.
Go, not so much - it came out in 2012. Pip and CPAN and Gem had been around for years. Go’s lack of a sane packaging solution this far into its lifetime remains a serious weakness of an otherwise solid platform.
Because the Go team kept pushing the ridiculous idea that versioning doesn't matter.
> `go get` also works just fine if you point it at forked repositories that you control.
And at that point, what value does `go get` add?