learninggo

Setup go developing environment

install golang

download from here

setup GOPATH and GOROOT env

export GOPATH=$HOME/code/go
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH

$GOPATH is where you put all of your go code

initialize gopath

mkdir -p $GOPATH/{bin,pkg,src}

congratulation, you are good to go

run your hello world

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/hellogo

cat > $GOPATH/src/hellogo/main.go <<EOF
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Println("hello world")
}

EOF

go run $GOPATH/src/hellogo/main.go