Setting Up Your Go Environment

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Summary

This article is to document steps to learning Go from the book Learning Go by Jon Bodner.

The book’s website is located at here.

Go to the Go website at https://go.dev/dl and choose the download for your platform and install it.

For Mac developers, you can install Go using Homebrew with the command brew install go

You can validate that your environment is set up correctly by running the command go version.

Go developers should read through the book Effective Go at here
Go developers should read through the Code Review Comments page on Go’s Wiki at here
Go development tools here are available for most popular text editors and IDEs.
Go Delve debugger at here
Go language server gopls
Go Playground at here
Go command documentation at here

Go programs use tabs to indent
Go programs consider it a syntax error if the opening brace is not on the same line as the declaration or command that begins the block