diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/hecate/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/hecate/default.nix
index 29a3e1ff1caa..dd266c0babca 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/hecate/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/hecate/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
-{ lib, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ lib, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-buildGoPackage rec {
-  version = "0.0.1";
+buildGoModule rec {
   pname = "hecate";
+  version = "unstable-2022-05-03";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner  = "evanmiller";
-    repo   = "hecate";
-    rev    = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "0ymirsd06z3qa9wi59k696mg8f4mhscw8gc5c5zkd0n3n8s0k0z8";
+    owner = "evanmiller";
+    repo = "hecate";
+    rev = "7637250f4b2c5b777418b35fa11276d11d5128b0";
+    sha256 = "sha256-8L0ukzPF7aECCeZfwZYKcJAJLpPgotkVJ+OSdwQUjhw=";
   };
 
-  goPackagePath = "hecate";
+  vendorSha256 = "sha256-eyMrTrNarNCB3w8EOeJBmCbVxpMZy25sQ19icVARU1M=";
 
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
+  ldflags = [ "-s" "-w" ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     inherit (src.meta) homepage;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/hecate/deps.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/hecate/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c9d94934a444..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/hecate/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-[
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/nsf/termbox-go";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go";
-      rev = "b6acae516ace002cb8105a89024544a1480655a5";
-      sha256 = "0zf95qdd5bif9rw03hqk87x7d905p373bvsj0bl4gi16spqjbdil";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/edsrzf/mmap-go";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/edsrzf/mmap-go";
-      rev = "935e0e8a636ca4ba70b713f3e38a19e1b77739e8";
-      sha256 = "11a63wrjwfnchjhwqjp6yd5j0370ysppjgv31l5bmvvwps7whq9d";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/mattn/go-runewidth";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mattn/go-runewidth";
-      rev = "737072b4e32b7a5018b4a7125da8d12de90e8045";
-      sha256 = "09ni8bmj6p2b774bdh6mfcxl03bh5sqk860z03xpb6hv6yfxqkjm";
-    };
-  }
-]