Go

When installed, try to run to see the installed version of Go.

Setup your workspace

Go has a unique approach of managing code where you have a single workspace for all your Go projects. For more information see the .

First, you’ll need to tell Go the location of your workspace. We’ll do this by adding some environment variables in your shell config file (usually .bash_profile, .bashrc or .zshrc).

export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GOROOT=/usr/local/opt/go/libexec
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

Create your workspace

Create the workspace directories tree:

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH $GOPATH/src $GOPATH/pkg $GOPATH/bin

$GOPATH/src This is where your Go projects are located
$GOPATH/pkg A folder that contains every package objects
$GOPATH/bin The compiled binaries home

package main
import "fmt"
    fmt.Printf("hello, world\n")
}

Run the program by running:

If you wish to compile it and move it to $GOPATH/bin, then run:

$ go install hello.go

Since we have $GOPATH/bin added to our $PATH, you can run your program from anywhere:

Import a Go package

Besides creating your own packages you can import and use other packages in your Go code. To do so you’ll use the go get command:

$ go get -u github.com/gorilla/mux

The command above will import the package mux into this directory $GOPATH/src/github.com/gorilla/mux.

Go has a built-in tool that automatically formats Go source code.

To format a single file run:

$ gofmt -w yourcode.go

You can also format an entire package (Note that the command is different from formatting a single file):

$ go fmt path/to/your/package

Generate documentation

With the godoc command you can generate documentation from your code and read documentation from other packages.

$ godoc fmt                # documentation for package fmt
$ godoc -src fmt           # fmt package interface in Go source form

You need to respect some spec in order to document using godoc. More information in the .