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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 05:28:57 JST mcc

   I am trying to run https://github.com/famasoon/snowflake_decoder

   It's written in Go, and the installation instructions say to use `go get`, which prints only a message saying that this is deprecated and to use `go install`. Which prints an error message. All straightforward combinations of commands I can think of for installing into a directory with a module, or downloading from Github and then building, print error messages, and I don't know if it's because the code is broken or my commands are. What am I missing?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 05:28:56 JST mcc

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     • Neia

     @neia Apparently not. Or maybe the backward compatibility refers only to code, not build tools, as if code were the hard part and build tools were the easy part somehow.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 05:28:57 JST mcc

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     My installed go version is 1.19.4. I'm starting to think the problem is not how I've set it up and the "package snowflake_decoder/decoder is not in GOROOT" is just a sign this older go program (4 years? that's not that long…) can't be built in current go.

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     Neia (neia@fedi.ikeran.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2024 05:28:57 JST Neia

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     @mcc@mastodon.social I thought one of the selling points of Go was supposed to be backward compatibility...