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Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Go

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2019-12-19 · latest 2026-09-17

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  1. Hello! I'm nfi-hashicorp from https://github.com/actions/setup-go/issues/395 :) My 2c given that that issue has sat in TODO for several years with no movement is that the maintainers probably aren't going to be pursuing too many big swings…
    comment by nfirvine · 2026-09-17 · in Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go
  2. …as a reference for teams writing their own custom caching actions that fit their exact needs: - https://github.com/actions/setup-go/pull/426 - https://github.com/actions/setup-go/issues/630 - https://github.com/actions/setup-go/issues/395…
    comment by peterldowns · 2026-09-16 · in Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go
  3. …the longstanding issue to reference this post, and that there is some hope that they'll update it! https://github.com/actions/setup-go/issues/478
    comment by peterldowns · 2026-01-08 · in Go.sum is not a lockfile
  4. …install dependencies...Eg, if your app depend on both Go, Ruby, Node at build time you will need: https://github.com/actions/setup-go https://github.com/actions/setup-node https://github.com/actions/setup-ruby I much prefer CircleCI way
    comment by kureikain · 2019-12-19 · in GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool [video]