The Invisible Layer Protecting Your Go Dependencies

Before starting, I want to be clear: this is not a deep dive into the Golang Proxy, but an introductory explanation so you know about it and its existence, just like I did after using Go for a couple of months without even knowing it was there. It’s Been There Every time you download a dependency in a Go project, either directly with go get or indirectly with go mod tidy , Go silently uses something called the Golang Proxy . It's an invisible and default process, easy to miss if nobody tells you