What is the best dependency manager for golang?

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Best dependency manager for golang	Price	Last Updated
-- govendor	-	Jun 29, 2020
-- Godep	-	Jan 7, 2020
-- Glide	-	Oct 17, 2019

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Godep

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Official Support from Golang, getting merged in Go v1.10

Godep will officially be supported and integrated into Go's toolchain from v1.10, according to their roadmap. See More

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godep isn't too difficult to use, but is no longer supported See More

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Very popular

Godep is the most popular dependency manager for Go. Since it's a community-driven project, it means that the documentation is almost always up-to-date and the risk of it being abandoned is quite low. See More

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Glide

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Support is now deferred to golang/godep

https://github.com/golang/dep See More

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Will be familiar to people already used to npm

Glide uses commands similar to npm (install, init, update) so it will be quite familiar to developers already used to npm and the transition will be seamless. See More

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No way to automatically update a single dependency

Running glide up will update all the dependencies found in the vendor file to the latest version. If you want to update only one package to the latest version you cannot add the package name after glide up. Instead you must manually update the vendor file and set the version for the package you want to update to the latest released version. See More

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Automatically locks dependecy versions

Glide works similarly to npm. It downloads packages from different sources and locks their versions in place so that other developers working on the same project use the same packages and versions as everyone else. See More

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What is the best dependency manager for golang?

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govendor

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My Recommendation for govendor

Godep

My Recommendation for Godep

My Recommendation for Godep

Official Support from Golang, getting merged in Go v1.10

Very popular

Glide

My Recommendation for Glide

My Recommendation for Glide

Support is now deferred to golang/godep

Will be familiar to people already used to npm

No way to automatically update a single dependency

Automatically locks dependecy versions

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