To preface this I have not looked into the internal details of vgo, so it could be the world's most interesting solution to this problem. I feel like this is a punch in the gut for a lot of people that spent tons of time looking at ways to solve dependencies in Go. From his post, it looks like Russ never really looked into dep closely as he gave it his "blessing" during gophercon. It seems like whenever there is an issue that gets brought in a proposal (not always but it seems like a lot) it gets shot down by the "higher ups". Not until it gets their attention, or it becomes a big deal to someone (Cloudfare) then is it important. Look don't get me wrong, vgo could be a great technical solution, but disregarding the work of those who actually cared about this issue before you did is a big mistake. It will alienate people in the community who care on improving the ecosystem for those outside of Google. I want to thank all of those involved in dep, it's a great tool that solved my dependency problems! Without you, we would not be having the discussion about vgo and a better way to dependency management in Go.