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by revskill 2745 days ago
Because setting environment variables is something most devs like to avoid.
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cgag 2745 days ago
No, because I have like 50 projects in ~/src and suddenly have to keep some of my code in ~/src/go/src/GitHub.com/cgag and that annoys me.
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cyphar 2745 days ago
I have tried several times to fix this problem in the past 5 or 6 years, once with symlinks (which would break quite often -- it's unsurprising that Plan 9 developers wouldn't care too much for handling symlinks correctly :P).

The current way I handle it is that $HOME/.local is my GOPATH, and $HOME/src links to $HOME/.local/src. So you can just have $HOME/src/github.com/bar/foo -- which is less ideal than just $HOME/src/foo, but it's something at least.

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lenkite 2743 days ago
I keep the source code for my projects in ~/src and I always set my GOPATH to my home dir. So the special 'go' in the path can be avoided. It will just be ~/src/github.com/...

But, yes, I rolled my eyes when learning about GOPATH for the first time.

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revel 2745 days ago
it's not just that large numbers of projects are a hassle, they make it harder to develop projects in isolation
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