Some of My Favorite Go Mods
Coming from the world of Perl, one thing I find to be a weakness of most languages is their lack of CPAN. Having a comprehensive archive of all the code that is shared and mattered is amazing. You can cache locally. You can carry it with you on a laptop (at least, if you just want the most recent versions of everything). You can grep it. You can run a local documentation repository easily. And then there are tools like MetaCPAN (or search.cpan.org before it) that don’t just give you the docs, but actually help you find code that someone has written to solve the problem you want to solve. (Golang’s pkg.go.dev, by comparison, is awful if you want to do a plain text search for a library that solves some arbitrary problem.)
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