How to use the latest Go version in stable?

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I’d like to be able to bump the version of the Go programming language to the latest (1.19.1 at the writing of this post) but when I try the Go_1_19 tag it does not exist.

I believe this might be because I am on the stable channels https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-22.05 and newer “major” versions of Go are not (yet?) available in the stable channel.

Is there a way to go over to the latest available go version in the nixos channels without having to switch over to unstable? Maybe with an override (and if so I am not entirely sure how to go about that yet so any help is appreciated)?

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You can use the stable channel and build your system from it, and use the unstable channel for your `nix-shells.

Alternatively if you really want to install go system wide, you can “cherry-pick” it from the unstable channel.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_install_a_package_from_unstable_while_remaining_on_the_stable_channel.3F