Posts from 17 April 2022

So, GitHub just got bought by Microsoft and this got me and a bunch of people thinking about the dependence of Go on GitHub as a piece of…

Introduction If you have been working with Go programming language for a while, you would have noticed that a lot of open source packages that you import start with github.com/…. You would then use go get command to download the package and add it to your go.mod file. For instance: $ go get -u github.com/abvarun226/goiplookup What if you did not want this dependency on Github and rather wanted to host your own git server?