Hacker News Reader

It’s traditional at least with web browsers to not send the fragment to the server. Query param would work, but implies your routes don’t change much between major versions.

View on HN

> It’s traditional at least with web browsers to not send the fragment to the server.

Ah, TIL, thanks!

I meant more "why must the import syntax use specifically this scheme to denote versions". I guess backwards compat?

Import paths are used to figure out where to fetch the source code from. To simplify a bit, if you see `example.com/foo/bar`, it works because there's an appropriate meta tag at https://example.com/foo/bar?go-get=1 . The import paths are pretty directly used as URLs.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com