What do you mean 'that's not how go works'? Go provides GOPATH: using a different GOPATH for each of my projects works, and it works really well.

> You need extra work to make it work.

What extra work? I set GOPATH, and everything just works. What more is there?

> That's not up to debate anymore anyway

Neither were type aliases, until they were, except they aren't.

I have no idea what dep adds that using the standard GOPATH doesn't do: I've read the background and the docs, and I'm familiar with using the vendor directory in the past; frankly, now that I've switched to using GOPATH all of those things look like a mistake. It all reads like tha Javafication of Go.