https://www.bradcypert.com/tags/athens-project/ Recent content in Athens-Project on BradCypert.com Hugo en-us Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:51:00 -0500 https://www.bradcypert.com/athens-project/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bradcypert.com/athens-project/ <p>I recently got back from Gophercon in San Diego and am still excited about the talk on the Athens Project. For those unaware, the Athens Project is a module proxy for Go! It’s currently in beta, but showing a ton of promise already.</p> <p>Go’s dependency management has changed a lot over the past few years. For simplicity, Go allowed you to simply specify your dependencies in your code as an import. <code>go get</code> would then get all the dependencies that your application needed. This worked, for a while, but as dependency versions began to churn, we began to see issues with this pattern — especially due to the fact that Go really wants you to follow <a href="https://semver.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SemVer</a> , but not all developers were.</p>