Is this still relevant?

[sathishvj]

The os package code seems to be almost the very same. So, is this package still relevant? Or is the std lib os still using cgo somewhere?

From package os.

func UserHomeDir() (string, error) {
	env, enverr := "HOME", "$HOME"
	switch runtime.GOOS {
	case "windows":
		env, enverr = "USERPROFILE", "%userprofile%"
	case "plan9":
		env, enverr = "home", "$home"
	}
	if v := Getenv(env); v != "" {
		return v, nil
	}
	// On some geese the home directory is not always defined.
	switch runtime.GOOS {
	case "android":
		return "/sdcard", nil
	case "ios":
		return "/", nil
	}
	return "", errors.New(enverr + " is not defined")
}

[dolmen]

os.UserHomeDir() appeared with Go 1.12.

[dolmen]

Also the primary motivation for this package (from README.md) what that os/user was using cgo on Darwin. But since Go 1.20 this is no longer the case (see golang/go@185766d) and os/user even exposes a osusergo build tag to force avoiding cgo.

[PeterCardenas]

i went down this rabbit hole of finding this repo after seeing it in autocomplete 😅. I would appreciate if this repo was archived so that it's more obvious that this shouldn't be used