golang

"Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software." - https://golang.org/

Golang keeps to a 6-month minor release cadence. See https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html

Tips and examples

• Default GOPATH is ${HOME}/go on unix systems.
• See a bunch of other defaults with go env

View default go environment

go env

Build code found on github

go get github.com/solarkennedy/uq
go build github.com/solarkennedy/uq

With newer golang versions, you can simply go install github.com/solarkennedy/uq@latest

Show all modules used by a golang project

This will list all dependencies recursively in two columns with the library on the left and its direct dependencies on the right.

cd "$SOURCE_REPO"
go mod graph

Links

• https://go.dev/learn
• https://golang.org/cmd/go
• https://labix.org/gopkg.in
• https://play.golang.org
• https://www.programming-books.io/essential/go/
• https://thewhitetulip.gitbook.io/bo: "This is an easy to understand example based tutorial aimed at those who know a little of Go and nothing of webdev and want to learn how to write a webserver in Go."
• https://changelog.com/gotime: "Your source for diverse discussions from around the Go community"
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_BzFbxG2za3bp5NRRRXJSw: justforfunc YT series about programming in Go
• https://algorithmswithgo.com
• https://gobyexample.com
• https://go.dev/wiki/
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoILbKo9rG3skRCj37Kn5Zj803hhiuRK6: Golang class vids