I’ve been programming in Go for over a decade now, and unless I need to add a new dependency - which is almost never, and nearly always at the start of a project - I don’t have to go online for anything. All of the docs - including for the dependencies - are there locally. The only place it hurts is if I’m being lazy and wanting to look online for example code to steal, rather than figure it out myself. That’s pretty rare though.

There is an area that requires internet, though, and that’s usually around specifications. I’ve been fighting with dbus and mpris lately, and have been spending more time with the browser than the editor. I’m not sure whether I’d be able to make any progress without examples; I’m developing a love/hate relationship with dbus - it’s so absurdly convoluted and seems unnecessarily complex. Only the fact that it hasn’t been replaced by something better keeps me believing all of the byzantine metadata crap is somehow necessary. Fucking CORBA isn’t this obtuse.

Anyway, maybe she’s having to do something with dbus, or trying to understand a Rust compiler error message. Then I can see why she might be blocked by having the internet down.