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Ask HN: Organizing Golang and non-Golang projects?
For many years I have organized my projects in a single directory like this:
|-- projects
|-- project_0
|-- project_1
|-- project_2
A project regardless of programming language will get a directory under 'projects', that contains all files releated to this particular project.
Some time ago I started learning Golang and have since written many utilities in it as I like it very much. Golang requires a special directory layout for all it's tools to work, and this layout is incompatible with the one I'm using.
What is the best way to organize Golang and non-Golang projects? Should I just bite the bullet and start organizing my projects by language?
- christophberger 10y agoYou could use a Go "project" that is in fact the $GOPATH, like so: |-- projects |-- project_0 |-- project_1 |-- project_2 |-- go |-- src |-- pkg |-- bin |-- project_4 |-- project_5 Your other projects would then not be affected at all. Or consider using a tool like `gb` (https://github.com/constabulary/gb https://github.com/constabulary/gb) that does not depend on $GOPATH. (But ensure to understand the caveats of this tool before switching to it.)