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See http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html

So the key part of the update I was referring to was the following: Because of course that's not how it really works. Instead, it makes a local copy of that external library. And i…

I know how it works :) I'm not new to Go. BUT, what you are describing is exactly how the Haunt guys used Go and consequently the issues they have run into. Please re-read the upda…

> No need to fork, it puts a copy of those libraries under ./src, so you always have a sealed (hermetic) referentially complete copy. While that is true, it doesn't solve the probl…

> and put import ("github.com/go-gl/opengl/gl") directly into your code. Viola! Thus hilarity ensues. Of course it does! All they had to do is fork the project (which they have) an…

Won't disagree with you there! Though sometimes going outside your comfort zone can be a good thing.

More people should be doing this. You don't even have to move out of tech yourself, find a position in a company where tech is only ancillary, not the core focus. You'd be surprise…