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Vendoring is also a practice that Google and other large tech companies use extensively. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's a bad idea.


My C, C++ and Java Ant scars in Fortune 500 consulting projects tell me otherwise.


That's fine. Some do it badly, and some do it well.


So why is Google moving away from Ant to Gradle in Android, while having Pub Packages for Dart?

Does not seem very supportive of vendoring.


I don't know anything about Android or Dart development, so I can't speak for them. All I can say is that internal Google development has been happily using vendoring of third-party code for many years (and not just C/C++ code), so I'm confident in saying that vendoring Go code can work just fine for "boring closed source enterprise commercial library tooling".




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