Interest in using go modules

[aaomidi]

As part of my work on #1894, I noticed that a lot of tooling I have at this point assumes everything uses go modules.

Are there any concerns about adding go modules as part of the generation code?

[cpu]

None from me, it's overdue 👍 There were some discussions where the need for it came up before.

I can't remember why it didn't start out as a module. Probably just due to the state of module support at the time the first version was written.

[weppos]

I can't remember why it didn't start out as a module. Probably just due to the state of module support at the time the first version was written.

Yes, most likely this is the scenario. I agree on bringing modules on, as long as they stay confined in the /tools folders and they don't leak outside in the root repo.