> Go requires me to instead dedicate an entire directory structure to my entire Go workspace, which I have to keep seperate from the other sources. Symlinks so

> Go requires me to instead dedicate an entire directory structure to my entire Go workspace, which I have to keep seperate from the other sources. Symlinks solves this for me. > This could easily be avoided by letting me set enviornment variables that would relocate some of these folders (especially bin and pkg) to different places. AFAIK, `GOBIN` will allow you to relocate `bin`. I'm not aware of any such env var for `pkg`. > This is an example of how Go as a language is pretentious. It's not pretension. It's following a philosophy that prefers convention over configuration.[1] [1] - http://golang.org/doc/articles/go_command.html#tmp_1 http://golang.org/doc/articles/go_command.html#tmp_1