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I don't think GOPATH as $HOME is a common thing (even back then).

A lot more people uses $HOME/go as GOPATH. So much so that $HOME/go is the default in Go 1.8.

I like to do this for my main Go path (I use per-project ones as needed), since I want ~/bin and ~/src (the former is where all of my personal binaries go, and the latter is where all of my personal source trees go). I guess I don't really mind that there's a ~/pkg — I might mind quite a bit more if I ever used a GUI file manager, but I never do that.

To answer 2) yes, you're correct. If there is a main package that exists at `github.com/your-username/hello`, a go get will leave the resulting binary in $GOPATH/bin.

that whole thing is so subversion.