Go (Golang) for beginners
Because I might not be the only newbie in the Go world this year, I've decided to document here all the information I gathered. Install Go Go installation is pretty well documented on the official Golang page but it can be summarized to: Downloading the binary matching your OS and architecture from the golang download p age wget https://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/go/go1.9.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz Extracting the software (/usr/local/go seems to be the recommended location) tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.9.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz Creating your Workspace Go workspace is the place where you put your source code and where the go packages/tools will be downloaded. mkdir $HOME/go In this directory, create a src subdirectory where you'll place all your code. mkdir $HOME/go/src Setting the environment variables Setting GOPATH ( export GOPATH=$HOME/go ) to point to your workspace. Then your path PATH ( export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin )...