goenv VS asdf

What does this have that https://github.com/syndbg/goenv doesn't?

However this is still a neat script OP! I was looking for something like this when installing Go for the first time and was contemplating between goenv, gvm, and asdf before settling on brew.

There are Go version managers (like goenv) that let you install multiple versions of go without polluting global PATH/GOBIN/GOPATH.

I use GoEnv. I hate that I have to do it, but I have valid (if annoying) reasons. I'd rather just keep the most recent version installed.

https://github.com/syndbg/goenv is a shell implementation that uses a shim to make calls to go. drewgonzales360s version will symlink to whichever version of Go a user chooses.

I am surprised I only saw one comment for goenv. This is literally the easiest way for all languages that have something similar (Python, Ruby, Go, Terraform, etc.). You need to uninstall all your go binaries, then install goenv, and all you have to do is to put in a project a .go-version file containing a single line with the version you need. The files are searched by the tool in a hierarchical order: if in the current directory where go is ran, no .go-version file is found, the tool will look up one directory, if there’s no ../.go-version will try again and so on. Let’s say in the end you will want to run the same go-version across all your projects, all you have to do is to find the first common parent directory and put a .go-version file in there, or simply just put a file in the root directory (/.go-version) or just use the global file (~/.goenv/version).

Not really answering your question but if you want to use Go 1.18 already there's a Go versions management tool called goenv that already has Go 1.18 and you can use already.

Kubebuilder doesn’t support Go 1.17, so we need to install Go 1.16. I decided to use goenv to manager Go versions.

i use goenv. works like a charm.

Or if you need to manage more than just node, asdf has been around for over a decade and works great. You can use a .tool-versions to change runtimes for each project you have, in addition to managing your global runtime versions

https://asdf-vm.com/

Why not just use a tool like asdf (https://asdf-vm.com/) or mise (https://mise.jdx.dev/)?

These tools have the advantage of not being multi-taskers and can manage version for all your tools. You wouldn’t need pyenv and npm and rvm and…

We’ve even started committing the .mise.toml files for projects to our repos. That way, since we work on multiple projects that may need multiple versions of the same tool, it’s handled and documented.

The purpose of a version manager is to help you navigate or install any tools for development easily. Version Manager can be one tool for each dependency (e.g. NVM, g) or One tool for all dependencies (e.g. asdf, mise).

(asdf)[https://asdf-vm.com/] fully supports Python and almost any other language. I've been using it for Ruby, Python, Elixir, and other languages for years and never looked back.

Secondly, our development environments must not drift, because then code may behave differently and a change could pass on our machine but fail in production. There are many tools for locking down environments, e.g nix, pkgx, asdf, containers, etc., and they all share the common goal of being able to lock down dependencies for an environment accurately and deterministically. And that needs to be enforced in our local workflow so we don't have to rely on CI environments for correctness. All developers must have environments that are effectively identical to what runs in CI (which itself should be representative of the production environment).

There are many ways this can be done (e.g nix, pkgx, asdf, containers, etc.), and we won’t get into which specific tools to use, because we'll instead cover the essential essence of preventing environment drift:

I've really been enjoying asdf, which is a program that allows you to install specified versions of dev utilities as well as dynamically manage them via shims and .tool-versions files.

I use the asdf version manager.