I’m a big fan of debian. I’m also a big fan of golang. One of the sacrifices debian makes to be so stable is lagging behind a bit on software versions. Debian users generally understand this, and also understand that it’s a good idea not to mess with the system versions of software. Here I will demonstrate how I configure my system to use whichever version of go I wish without harming the overall system configuration.

I’m a big fan of debian. I’m also a big fan of golang. One of the sacrifices debian makes to be so stable is lagging behind a bit on software versions. Debian users generally understand this, and also understand that it’s a good idea not to mess with the system versions of software. Here I will demonstrate how I configure my system to use whichever version of go I wish without harming the overall system configuration.

  • h0bbl3s@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Thanks :) Exactly. I do a lot of development and testing in an alpine linux container, simply because it has much newer versions of libraries and musl c. If I can get it to compile there, and on debian, I’m in good shape as far as compatibility goes. I used to really enjoy Arch and the rolling updates when I was younger, but I’ve gotten to where I don’t want to mess with things constantly changing.

    I use python venv for nearly everything I do python, and the way go is setup does make it extremely easy since it uses a per user environment anyway.