Don't get too excited. You don't have to place your projects within $GOPATH anymore, but all your dependencies are still forcefully downloaded to – and imported

Don't get too excited. You don't have to place your projects within $GOPATH anymore, but all your dependencies are still forcefully downloaded to – and imported from – the shared $GOPATH. AFAIK they didn't provide a way to have your dependencies localized to a subdirectory of your project's root. The documentation for "go mod vendor"[1] makes it seem like it should accomplish that task, but I couldn't get it to work for initial pull of dependencies – it only worked after dependencies were already downloaded to $GOPATH, at which point it was willing to make a copy of it within the project. [1] "... or to ensure that all files used for a build are stored together in a single file tree, 'go mod vendor' creates a directory named vendor in the root directory of the main module and stores there all the packages from dependency modules"