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This is a common issue with Rust projects as well. At least with Rust you have the idea of "MSRV" (minimum supported rust version). I've never heard it discussed within Go's community.

There's no MSGV. Everyone pins the latest.

This also plagues dependencies. People pin to specific version (ie, 1.23) instead of the major version (at least 1.0 or at least 1.2, etc).

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The "go x.yy" line in go.mod is supposed to be that MSGV, but `go mod init` will default it to the current version on creation. While you could have tooling like `cargo-msrv` to determine what that value would be optimal, the fact that only the latest two Go versions are supported means it's not particularly useful in most cases.

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