A simple, single binary CLI tool to install and manage Go version on machines(for my case linux servers). Zero dependenices included.

Sometimes on my servers I dont want docker just for language tooling. some existing tooling like GVM and asdf seem a bit more complicated for somethign as simple as what I need it for and thats just install this version of GO in this location. I also just wanted something I can SCP over to machines via ansible or just manual and it just works.

• Downloads official Go releases from https://go.dev/dl
• extracts to your desired location(version isolated)
• Verifies SHA256 checksums
• No shell dependencies, or interpeters or config files.

# Install a specific version to your desired directory
./goversion install --version 1.26.0 --dir $HOME/go_versions

~/bashrc
alias go1.26='/home/root/go_versions/1.26.0.bin/go'

• list and uninstall commands would be nice to have.
• potentially a symlink manager.
• Please I need to add some tests, or if anyone else would like to help me there.