> cmd/myapp is not a local path, it’s a universal path In `go run` the CLI interprets it as universal path, to be precise. That's exactly the point. > go run

> cmd/myapp is not a local path, it’s a universal path In `go run` the CLI interprets it as universal path, to be precise. That's exactly the point. > go run github.com/user/name/cmd/myapp That's not an alternative when you're working on the app's code locally. You have to use `./cmd/myapp`. And when you do that multiple times per day/week, after a while you just start always using `./` prefix for local paths.