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Wait, so, they were expecting to develop agains an X version, and then after release, when they release the source it will compile easily for all it's users with zero dependencies problems?

I don't see how bashing Go would help these guys out of the hole they are in, same would have happened with any other programming language in a project that uses fast-moving dependencies...

They were making a game, they could have just forked the projects they needed, and build from that, that's the way to do these kind of projects, you stick on a revision, and when there is an update on a dependency, the team should agree to make the upgrade changing all the required source code.

For what they say, the main developer had no idea that the repositories were changing a lot, and he never updated them, so everything was going thru smoothly... I don't see the need to bash Go, neither the main programmer, i just believe he needed more experience to handle the project correctly.

What i don't like is their attitude "nobody can fix this Go garbage code because Go is all wrong"...




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