But `go generate` can, and that is required to build some go projects.

It is also somewhat common for some complicated projects to require running a Makefile or similar in order to build, because of dependencies on things other than go code.

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TheDong 5 days ago | parent [-]

The culture around "go generate" is that you check in any files it generates that are needed to build.

In fact, for go libraries you effectively have to otherwise `go get` wouldn't work correctly (since there's no way to easily run `go generate` for a third-party library now that we're using go modules, not gopath).

Have you actually seen this in the wild for any library you might `go get`? Can you link any examples?

	▲	thayne 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Have you actually seen this in the wild for any library you might `go get`? Not for a library, but I have for an executable. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was.