Golang's glide downloads dependencies to the project's source. As a result, go build compiles those too, and go plugins that lint/vet the codebase also parse the dependencies.
Assuming those dependencies are stable, how can I compile the dependencies so go build becomes faster?
Also, how can I remove vendor/ from go's tools to lint and check the codebase for errors?
Is there a way to pre-compile my dependencies (get .a) files, so it is faster to compile when I run go install or go build
See https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Compile_packages_and_dependencies
go build [-o output] [-i] [build flags] [packages]
[...]
The -i flag installs the packages that are dependencies of the target.
Also, how can I remove vendor/ from go's tools to lint and check the codebase for errors?
See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11659#issuecomment-122139338:
Instead of using ./... you can do:
go install $(go list ./... | grep -v /vendor/)