Go’s new “minimal version selection” system (https://research.swtch.com/vgo-mvs ) is interesting. It‘s tempting to just write off as NIH: “lockfiles are complicated, so let’s not use them and instead /never upgrade anything ever/ by default”. Simplicity at a cost, like other Go decisions…
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...bbut, that wouldn’t be entirely fair, because lockfiles (like Cargo’s) have the same behavior of requiring explicit action to upgrade, albeit only for executables rather than libraries. New packages use latest versions of their deps by default, but existing ones stagnate.
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Lockfiles also lock individual revisions, not tagged version numbers.
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