goenv VS asdf-golang

Compare goenv vs asdf-golang and see what are their differences.

goenv

:blue_car: Like pyenv and rbenv, but for Go. (by go-nv)

asdf-golang

Go plugin for the asdf version manager (by asdf-community)
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goenv asdf-golang
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goenv

Posts with mentions or reviews of goenv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
  • GitHub - Clevenio/Goenv: 🐺 Manage Your Applications Go Environment.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 14 May 2023
    What does this have that https://github.com/syndbg/goenv doesn't?
  • Update Go version from CLI
    5 projects | /r/golang | 5 May 2023
    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.
  • Discussion: about "go install" versus brew when available
    6 projects | /r/golang | 1 Mar 2023
    There are Go version managers (like goenv) that let you install multiple versions of go without polluting global PATH/GOBIN/GOPATH.
  • Managing multiple Go versions in the local environment
    10 projects | /r/golang | 21 Nov 2022
    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.
  • goenv VS goenv - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 17 Sep 2022
    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.
  • How do you manage multiple versions of Go?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 27 May 2022
    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).
  • How can we push homebrew to update go package?
    8 projects | /r/golang | 18 Mar 2022
    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.
  • How to create custom pod with Kubebuilder
    4 projects | dev.to | 11 Feb 2022
    Kubebuilder doesn’t support Go 1.17, so we need to install Go 1.16. I decided to use goenv to manager Go versions.
  • NVM equivalent in go?
    6 projects | /r/golang | 8 Jan 2022
    i use goenv. works like a charm.

asdf-golang

Posts with mentions or reviews of asdf-golang. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-21.
  • Managing multiple Go versions in the local environment
    10 projects | /r/golang | 21 Nov 2022
    I use https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf with the golang plugin https://github.com/kennyp/asdf-golang
  • How can we push homebrew to update go package?
    8 projects | /r/golang | 18 Mar 2022
  • One of the most powerful Software Development tool - 2 mins read
    22 projects | dev.to | 1 Jan 2022
    ❯ asdf plugin-list --urls --refs act https://github.com/grimoh/asdf-act.git master 8729029 aws-vault https://github.com/beardix/asdf-aws-vault.git master 937a1db awscli https://github.com/MetricMike/asdf-awscli.git main b9ba4c7 docker-slim https://github.com/everpeace/asdf-docker-slim.git master 4ee75a3 golang https://github.com/kennyp/asdf-golang.git master 1f388f1 helm https://github.com/Antiarchitect/asdf-helm.git master 87eef5a java https://github.com/halcyon/asdf-java.git master f0c702f jq https://github.com/ryodocx/asdf-jq.git master 3144577 kubectl https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-kubectl.git master da7bb0b minikube https://github.com/alvarobp/asdf-minikube.git master 8ca7b8d mysql https://github.com/iroddis/asdf-mysql.git master 3aaf756 nodejs https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs.git master cb61e3d perl https://github.com/ouest/asdf-perl.git master 31bb799 php https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-php.git master 759843b postgres https://github.com/smashedtoatoms/asdf-postgres.git master 4f8b356 python https://github.com/danhper/asdf-python.git master 8ab052f redis https://github.com/smashedtoatoms/asdf-redis.git master bf1276e ruby https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-ruby.git master f134c2d sbt https://github.com/bram2000/asdf-sbt.git master 33f9637 scala https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-scala.git master 1206055 skaffold https://github.com/virtualstaticvoid/asdf-skaffold.git master c942ecf spark https://github.com/joshuaballoch/asdf-spark.git master 6fe49de
  • Gerenciando versão de ferramentas com asdf/asdf-vm
    6 projects | dev.to | 6 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goenv and asdf-golang you can also consider the following projects:

GVM - Go Version Manager

gvm - Go Version Manager (gvm) enables seamless installing and swapping between Go versions with a single command. This tool manages a Go environment for the user by allowing a user to specify which Go version they wish to use and handling all of the steps to install and configure that Go version. GVM also supports installing Go from the official Golang master branch so that you can easily try the next version of Go without waiting for a pre release build.

asdf-plugins - Convenience shortname repository for asdf community plugins

nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions [Moved to: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm]

gimme - Install go, yay!

asdf-terraform-docs - terraform-docs (https://github.com/segmentio/terraform-docs) plugin for asdf

g - Simple go version manager, gluten-free

asdf-hashicorp - HashiCorp plugin for the asdf version manager

homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

asdf-php - PHP plugin for the asdf version manager

asdf-tflint - An asdf plugin for installing terraform-linters/tflint.