Golang puts shit specifically in $HOME/go. Not even .go. Just plain go.
Why is it so difficult to follow industry standards
That's what happens when you don't set $GOPATH I think
That doesn't make it better.
It makes it insofar better to me that you have the option to change it. You can't change Mozilla programs to use anything but .mozilla (apart from modifying the source code of course) so for me seeing the folder is at least a way of telling me that the variable is unset.
The better question is which folder is suited the best to store the stuff that goes into $GOPATH
Just because something is worse, doesn't make the other thing good. A sane and standard default, as others have mentioned, is a small bar to meet.
Of course, but that's not the point. There should be a sane default, and there isn't one
Go pisses me off with that. I separate projects the way I want but go wants every project written in go in one big directory?
off the shelf go was too annoying for me
Nowadays I set GOENV_ROOT to an XDG location and use goenv instead.
Shout out to xdg-ninja - it'll find files that are in your home and suggest how to configure the app to use XDG instead. https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja
Strange that some apps allow configuring it rather than just doing it automatically...
I wish they used them all, especially XDG_CACHE_HOME which can become pretty big pretty fast.
And i wish there was a separate XDG_LOG_HOME or $HOME/.local/log, with logrotate preconfigured to look there.
100% agree and I also despise devs who do this on windows, instead of using %appdata% they’re using c:\users\username\.myappisimportantandtotallydeservesthisdir
I have to use a separate Documents folder for my actual documents lol
I didn't know about this (and thankfully, haven't written anything public). I've been trying to fix an install script for an OSS project that doesn't work on immutable distros, and using the XDG Base Directory specs might just be the panacea I was looking for!
Where did i read this... basically, the .file being hidden being a bug in the early unix filesystem, which got misused to hide configuration files.
Offenders despite XDG-variables set and with no workaround:
Here is a more concise way to achieve the same thing:
ls -ACd ~/.??*/ | sed -e "s#$HOME/##g"
I think that can be boiled down to only cd; echo .*/
Maybe throw a ;cd - on the end if the change of directory is unwanted.
My fellow FOSS users, patches are welcome.
there's no place like 127.0.0.1
there's no place like XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
vim now has an option to put the .vim folder in ~/.config; though I'm not sure if the default plugin/package & syntax folders can be set under ~/.local/share.
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