Only multiply this effort times all the software people say this for, and now you have to manually remember to update.

There’s a reason people use package managers.

Well lots of software like Ruby is a pain in the ass to install. Package managers make plenty of sense there. But Go is as easy as it comes. I was just offering that since this seems like a time-sensitive update.

This has nothing to do with Go being easy or hard to install, and everything to do with giving people a uniform way to manage installation, updates and removal of software, independent of what software that is.

OK. Well, for what it's worth, I use ubuntu and find it much easier to install Go using their website than using apt (which I do use for most things). Thanks for the downvotes guys.

This was in reference to Homebrew, though. In Homebrew, installing Go is simply:

    brew install go

No sudo required, nor 'update' command required first, etc.

I don’t use Homebrew, given that Go is now written in Go, how does Homebrew bootstrap it when there are no binaries available? Does it download Go 1.4, builds it with a C compiler and uses that to build the latest version?

Based on this[1] it appears to be running this[2] bootstrap script, which I believe uses make.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/bootstrap.bash

Sure, it's that simple until you need a specific non-default version. In cases like that I have found it easier to install from golang.org, that's all I was trying to say.

I’ve been installing Go from source since back when that was necessary to get cross compilation working, and have continued because I am a crazy person. It only takes a couple minutes and a previous version of Goto do.

I can probably stop now.