Quite a few current Go programmers will have something set other than `~/go` because that default only came in very recently, but you'll probably find that almo

Quite a few current Go programmers will have something set other than `~/go` because that default only came in very recently, but you'll probably find that almost everyone uses `~/go` or `$GOPATH`. One thing that you learn quickly when starting Go is that fighting the language's idioms (even where they're questionable) isn't going to be a good time.