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Mastering Go Modules: A Survival Guide for Dependency Hell

Introduction # It is 2025, and while the days of GOPATH are a distant memory, Go developers still occasionally wake up in a cold sweat dreaming about dependency graphs. We call it “Dependency Hell,” but in Go, it usually manifests as a specific kind of purgatory: diamond dependency conflicts, checksum mismatches, or the dreaded “ambiguous import” error.