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People kept asking for a license so they could use it, so I added a license that clarifies that this is not a project that should be seriously used.

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That is a beautiful, if sort of minor, hack. "I need a license because I want to use this at work and they need me to have a license for all code we use." "Here's the license: 'No.'"

It's like the opposite of the WTFPL [1], the FYL.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

I can imagine the type people looking to actually use this. They are using go for whatever reason but complain about it constantly because they want it to be Ruby on Rails.

People really want to mock out dependencies in go, instead of architecting their application properly

I’m all over using gomock to test my packages in isolation. I’ll just continue to do that with generated mocks instead of trying to monkeypatch a language that isn’t intended for that.

I’m curious about your motivation for writing this. Did it start out as something legitimate and morphed into a joke when you wanted to see how far you can push it? Or were you taking the piss the whole time?

Taking the piss 100%

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