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Why is the semantic of `go get` any better than `bundle install`?

There's obviously no way they can fix the behavior in a backwards compatible way because it is so fundamentally broken, and I think that doing something because of a pretty name is absolutely ridiculous when it comes to creating a technical product. You need names like 'heartbleed' if you want to talk to management, but go get is a fundamentally developer focused tool and thus its utility should come over its naming.

I almost see its naming as a bad rap against google developers because it's an un-googleable phrase and who cares if it sounds pretty if it's un-googleable and also utterly terrible.



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