stefanmaric/g

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1079 stars · 54 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

g is a simple, portable Go version manager implemented as a single POSIX shell script. It installs official prebuilt Go archives without shims, sudo, or a plugin ecosystem, inspired by tj/n.

Use cases

• install and switch between multiple Go versions
• manage go toolchain versions without shims
• try a specific Go version without changing the active one
• set up Go on macOS or Linux without sudo
• discover and install Go beta and RC releases
• script Go version installation in CI

When to choose

• you want a lightweight, single-script Go version manager
• you use multiple shells (bash, zsh, fish) and want no shim pollution
• you prefer official prebuilt Go binaries over building from source
• you need unprivileged installation without sudo

When to avoid

• you need Windows support outside WSL
• you want project-level automatic version switching via config files
• you need a version manager for multiple languages, not just Go

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools package-manager configuration-management developer-tools programming-languages cli cross-platform go-version-manager shell-script posix no-shims portable version-switching command-line macos linux

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