> The issue of disappearing vendors can largely be solved using godep

Godep isn't "canon". There lies the problem. There should be no need for godep,the library dependecy issue should be solved once and for all by the go team so everybody uses the same library dependency manager. Vendoring dependencies solves nothing. Should I bundle these dependencies If I put my libs on github? and what if a dep has a bug? how do I know what version was used if I want to fix the lib myself? All that stuff stinks. I like Go but these are serious issues that will backfire, because other plateforms have been there and done that...