Quite a few current Go programmers will have something set other than `~/go` because that default only came in very recently, but you'll probably find that almost everyone uses `~/go` or `$GOPATH`.

One thing that you learn quickly when starting Go is that fighting the language's idioms (even where they're questionable) isn't going to be a good time.

Don't know about others, but since I run my projects in containers anyway, I'll usually use `direnv` on my host to set GOPATH to project directory, and then use the default GOPATH in go docker images (`/go`).

I could even do without direnv altogether, but I need it so that vim-go can report build errors on file saving.

Most put it under ~/go. It's quick and easy.

I use virtualgo[0] so I can organise my work properly and not mix my own stuff up with loads of unrelated libraries

[0] https://github.com/getstream/vg