Go

Go is a compiled, garbage collected programming language excellent at async, concurrent work

Install

• Windows

  1. Download ZIP from https://go.dev/dl/ and save it to Downloads
  2. Set version for scripts

  $version="1.23.2"

  3. Extract the downloaded archive

  7z x -y ~/Downloads/go$version.windows-amd64.zip "-o$HOME/dotbin/extra/portable"

  4. Setup GOPATH

  mkdir -p ~/dotbin/extra/portable/go/gopath
  $gopath=$env:USERPROFILE+"\dotbin\extra\portable\go\gopath"
  [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('GOPATH',$gopath,"User")

  WARNING

  Currently, GOPATH is not added to PATH because I don't need to run any Go packages. This might change in the future

  5. Configure link

  Add-Content -Path ~/dotbin/extra/portable/link -Value "go/bin/go.exe`ngo/bin/gofmt.exe"
  sudo dotbin-link

• Arch Linux: Install the go package and make the portable package directory

  sudo pacman -Syu go
  mkdir -p ~/dotbin/extra/portable/go

  Then add the following to ~/.bashrc

  # Go
  export GOPATH=$HOME/dotbin/extra/portable/go/gopath

WARNING

Restart Shell after making the changes to environment variables!

Then verify the installtion with

go version