Symlinks are your friends ;)

Keep the actual directory where Go wants it to be and create a symlink to it in ~/dev/$who/$project.

Next, create a script that you name as “mygo” or whatever (something short and memorable that makes sense to you. I would probably name it as just “g”) and put it in your ~/bin/ and ensure you have ~/bin in your $PATH.

In said script you resolve the real path of your project, cd there and then execute /usr/local/bin/go with the args that your script got:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

    cd "$( realpath . )"

    /usr/local/bin/go "$@"

So when you are in ~/dev/someclient/someproject/, you run “mygo build” and the script runs “go build” from the real path of the project. (At first I suggested to name your script as just “go”, but I decided that it was probably better to use a non-colliding name instead and so I quickly edited this comment.)

That ought to do it.

I totally agree with you though. I do similar to you — I keep public projects under ~/src/github.com/ctsrc/$project and client projects under ~/src/$client/$project. If it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t write in Go I would be annoyed too.