Can I play with go1.18 beta while keeping my stable 1.17 version around for production code?

[Travis Keep]

This may be silly question, but is there a way for me to download and play with 1.18 while keeping my existing 1.17 installation for production code?  Is there a way to have multiple versions of go installed on the same computer?

[Bruno Albuquerque]

Yes, see instructions on how to download/install go1.18beta1. It explicitly suggests a way that will allow this.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 9:03 AM Travis Keep <kee...@gmail.com> wrote:

This may be silly question, but is there a way for me to download and play with 1.18 while keeping my existing 1.17 installation for production code?  Is there a way to have multiple versions of go installed on the same computer?

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[Brian Hatfield]

Yes! If you see the release email, there's some steps included:

If you have Go installed already, the easiest way to try go1.18beta1
is by using the go command:
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.18beta1@latest
$ go1.18beta1 download

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 12:03 PM Travis Keep <kee...@gmail.com> wrote:

This may be silly question, but is there a way for me to download and play with 1.18 while keeping my existing 1.17 installation for production code?  Is there a way to have multiple versions of go installed on the same computer?

[fge...@gmail.com]

Sure:
https://go.dev/doc/manage-install#installing-multiple