Update: It turns out that this setup is not needed, you should a have single GOPATH directory with all of your projects inside it, and use the vendor feature to handle each project dependencies. More details in a new post.

When working with Go language you must setup the GOPATH environment variable, but soon you will face two problems:

• Each project should have its own Go dependencies and its own Git code repo, so putting your source under GOPATH would be problematic.
• When working with “Atom” with “Go Plus” plugin, it needs to install several Go packages which would pollute your own source.

To solve both problems I added the following to my “.bash_login”: