GVM VS goreleaser

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.

I'd recommend using something like gvm: https://github.com/moovweb/gvm

Ah neat. For ref: https://github.com/moovweb/gvm. Not sure how I never saw that one. I guess I just probably googled "update golang bash github" at some point a few years ago and went with it.

I use the Go Version Manager. It is really easy to use and you can manage as many versions as you want: https://github.com/moovweb/gvm

Checkout out official GVM repo for more here.

We can use the gvm Go version manager to use versioned installation which is a tool that provides an interface to manage Go versions.

I've been using gvm for a while now to manage my Go versions. It's absolutely amazing, however, it's always lacked the ability to automatically create Go installations per repo like RVM does with .ruby_version.

what's new/different from all others Go version managers like https://github.com/moovweb/gvm for instance ?

I also got my eyes on GoReleaser, which I will use in my (Go) projects.

With "xq", I went even further and automated the release process using GoReleaser. To publish a new release, the only thing I need is to create and push the Git tag. The corresponding GitHub Action will trigger a release process, and GoReleaser prepares the binaries and changelog based on declared conventions. The result has a high level of predictability, and no manual work is required.

Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

- https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

- https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

- https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

- https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

- https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

- https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

- https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

- https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

- https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

- https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

Goreleaser is nice. https://goreleaser.com/

I use goreleaser for packaging my binaries. I'm not currently doing RPM, but it does a lot of services and if you don't hunker down on a single solution, it might help with keeping your releases up to date/in sync.

There's some packaging issues, for example, we've always wanted to publish deb/rpm packages, but never got around to adding it to either promu or completely switching our build tooling over to GoReleaser.