I hate this. Go has been putting off vendoring for such a long time because they "didn't want to come up with a half-baked solution". I think that's bull, and it just wasn't a priority for the at the time Google-heavy team since they have a different dependency need (fueled partly by the NIH-syndrome).

Now, they release this half-baked solution which has no true advantages over the existing vendoring tools other than keeping our import path the same in your source file (which just makes things more confusing imho). No solution for dealing with dependency conflicts, not even tools to detect and manage them other than the compiler itself.

On top of that there's even more "magic keywords" that you need to learn which causes stuff not to behave as you expect, just like the magic comments.

I understand it is also a consequence of having a v1.0 and a backwards-compatibility guarantee, but nearly all features added after 1.0 seem to be added with as minimal effort as needed to get something working, which is not a good thing. It all feels tacked on, the easy way, and not thought out.