Install

Tip

goboscript requires the nightly Rust toolchain. Install it once with:

rustup toolchain install nightly

Install from source

Clones and installs the latest version from the git repository. Requires git and the Rust toolchain.

git clone https://github.com/aspizu/goboscript
cd goboscript
cargo +nightly install --path .

To update:

cd goboscript
git pull
cargo +nightly install --path .

Install from source (using cargo)

Installs the latest version from the git repository in a single command.

cargo +nightly install --git https://github.com/aspizu/goboscript

To update:

cargo +nightly install --git https://github.com/aspizu/goboscript --force

Install with nix

Note

The nix flake installs goboscript from source, like the other methods, so you will need to be patient.

devShell

You can test goboscript without installing it to your system with the nix devshell, a bit like nix-shell -p {some package}. This will create a subshell where goboscript is installed. Once you exit this subshell, you will no longer be able to use the goboscript command (until you open a new devShell or install it system-wide). Once you run nix-collect-garbage, the goboscript installation files will actually be removed from your system.

Simply run the command nix develop github:aspizu/goboscript

Nixos standalone installation (flake)

This is for if you want to have goboscript available system-wide. For nix flakes, add the input goboscript and add it to environment.systemPackages in your flake, roughly like so:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs?ref=25.11";
    goboscript.url = "github:aspizu/goboscript";
  };
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, goboscript, ... }: {
    nixosConfigurations.yourHostname = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      modules = [
        ({ pkgs, ... }: {
          environment.systemPackages = [
            goboscript.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.goboscript
          ];
        })
      ];
    };
  };
}