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Comment by bwilliams | Hacker News Reader

I sound like a broken record, but Golang is totally worthless to me until $GOPATH is abandoned. I don't want everything down to my workspace structure determined for me. Once that's done with I think Go would be an amazing language to use.

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GOPATH drives me crazy. I'm the only one of my co-workers really pushing for golang, but all have said that until GOPATH, dependencies, and versioning get 'fixed' they won't even bother with it.

I'm a borderline Go fanboy, but GOPATH tends to drive me nuts as well. It'd be nice if it had a sane default. 99% of the time, I'm just doing GOPATH=$PWD.

I'm glad I'm not the only one confounded by GOPATH. I have a script I use to build my files that does

    GOPATH=`pwd`:$GOPATH go build $1.go

...where my bash_profile initially exports GOPATH as /usr/local/go. Probably unconventional but hey, it works.

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