Obtain user’s home directory

Since go 1.12 the recommended way is:

package main
import (
    "os"
    "fmt"
    "log"
)
func main() {
    dirname, err := os.UserHomeDir()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal( err )
    }
    fmt.Println( dirname )
}

Old recommendation:

In go 1.0.3 ( probably earlier, too ) the following works:

package main
import (
    "os/user"
    "fmt"
    "log"
)
func main() {
    usr, err := user.Current()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal( err )
    }
    fmt.Println( usr.HomeDir )
}