Basic Go environment setup

[arcticicestudio]

I started to use Go as my main programming language almost 3 years for everything from CLIs, high performant and lightweight backends/microservices with performance and intercompatibility in mind as well as for daily tools.
Go comes with a fantastic toolchain that also doesn't require a lot of necessary setups, therefore this basic setup is enough to work efficiently in combination with the awesome IntelliJ Go plugin, a minimal setup for [Vim with the govim plugin][gh-govim] and a basic integration for Go in VS Code.

I've used the following basic setup:

• Defining the GOPATH environment variable to point to the custom location at $HOME/.go. Even though that I only use Go Modules this is required for backwards compatibility, the toolchain as well as the resulting binaries in $GOPATH/bin.
• Add $GOPATH/bin to $PATH for all hosts.