Building the simplest Go static analysis tool
Apr 27, 2016Filippo Valsorda

Summary
This post details the creation and open-sourcing of `vendorcheck`, a simple static analysis tool for Go. It highlights Cloudflare's proactive approach to improving developer tooling within the Go ecosystem by addressing a specific pain point related to Go's vendoring mechanism. The post also serves as a recruitment tool, indicating the team's engagement with Go development and their willingness to contribute to open source.
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