This is ridiculous. I have come across numerous projects written in half the languages under the sun that were impossible to build and/or run for various reasons, mainly because the original developer had so much stuff in his environment that it depended on. At least Go has urls to original source repos which is a whole lot better than mysterious binary blobs that noone knows what the hell they do let alone where they came from (but were most likely brittle chunks of Fortran77). And if you modify someone elses code and it gets out of sync...well that's a problem but its not Go's fault.