i really fucking hate dependency management downloading packages from a centralized repository really grinds my fucking gears

this is like the one go flaw that makes me not use the language for absolutely everything

It's not centralized actually but they use caching servers iirc so it mostly is. Maybe there's a way to turn it off

@nyanide

> Maybe there's a way to turn it off

GOPROXY='direct'

@p interesante

@nyanide These are helpful: `go help environment`, `go env`, `echo FUCK YOU. Strongly worded letter to follow | sendmail rsc@golang.org`

@p @nyanide
And a guy who I think is on Go cryptography team tried to convince me here on Fedi that reading about this stuff — "direct" being a special value, on some web page IS the proper way to document it 🤦

@m0xee @nyanide I forget what I was trying to look up but there was one instance of `go doc $something` that had some sparse information and a link to the web page in case you wanted more information. So I go to the web page and the information was still sparse...and ended with a suggestion to use `go doc` to get more information.

@p @nyanide
Yeah, I remember this too and the beauty of it is that $something is also only vaguely related to these matters 😂

@m0xee @nyanide It's much nicer if you just get a man page and that man page is it. Sometimes `go doc` manages to be that nice.

@p @nyanide
Standard library is very well documented… Well, used to be, not sure it's still the case and they don't make you go online to figure things out.