TIL: Upgrading golang using go
David Viramontes
David Viramontes
Today I learned that you can upgrade your local golang version using go env. You can do this by writing to go's environment key=value store like so: go env -w KEY=VALUE.
go env -w GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.25.4+auto
# then run to apply
go version
go: downloading go1.25.4 (darwin/amd64)