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💡 TIL: Today I learned that there is nothing special about
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pkg/ inside of Go projects. It is just like any other sub-package structure you might otherwise define in your project. It just adds an extra part to your imports. I think it's actually confusing at best and just unnecessary typing and an unnecessary sub-structure. Just keep your packages in the top-level and be done with it 👌
@brasshopper@twtxt.net That’s the thing I really hate the most about programming languages and the communities that that eventually evolve around them. You end up with (as you rightfully point out) with folks from other languages come in and start touting ways to do things that may have made a lot of sense in one language but not necessary another. Standards are great and all, but they also take away the creativity that we all enjoy in this field in the first place. Conventions are better IMO.