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I honestly thought this would be the sorry of a developer frustrated with Go's lack of package manager and its pragmatism... wrong!

That said, I would like to be the first to say the following; is it really that necessary to not only include "Go" in the title of the post (as if it were a feature) but also in the name of the application? There, I said it ;) /s

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There's an unwritten rule that says that if you program Go, whether you love it or hate it, you must ensure everybody knows about it. It would just be irresponsible otherwise.

I thought that it was true about vi(m).

A vi(m) user must always let others know about it.

We can now expand that stock phrase to "Atheist vegan vim-using crossfitter".

The real mystery is: what comes first?

And I use vim, I am sure you want to know it. /s

Have you used Python? Every other library has -py- in it somewhere.

Go ecosystem is full of Python refugees. That must be where we get it from.

This is a pretty common theme in new languages. New projects in Ruby used to have a strong tendency of starting with 'r', and I'd be surprised if it didn't use to be the case in others as well.

They get over it, eventually.

> They get over it, eventually.

Someone tell that to KDE!

Doesn't practically every package in Java-land start with "j"?

Guava, Storm, Guice, Apache Commons, Spring, Tomcat, Dagger. Sure you have your JMeter, JUnit, Jboss, but that trend is less so in newer packages, in my experience.

A better example would be Elixir, where every package is Ex Something, e.g. ExUnit, Exometer, ExRated.

Good point on Elixir, I should have spotted that, as I've been learning Elixir over the last few months.

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