During the coding night we explore go lang so this is the suggested software to have installed:
- go lang (any available, should not make a difference)
- Ide
- VSCode + Go plugin
- JetBrain go (or IntellijUltimate + go)
- Your entusiasm
I did some training with Mac and Linux, don't know how go works in Windows, last hope WLS2
Official guide: https://golang.org/doc/install
Official site tell you to download the executables from the site and unpack them, but a most handy way is to use brew.
Installing go with brew:
brew install go
As for mac official site tell you to download and install the tarball, but usually is already packaged with the distribution
Don't know if choco works well with windows, but could be a different way to install it.
Each directory in go is a module and in order to simplify building etc. is better to start with a module:
go mod init coding-night
could be an example.
after you can create a file (usually main.go) that contains your code and main_test.go that contains the test
To run the code:
go run main.go
or
go build
and execute the generated executables.
To execute the tests:
go test
Some link that could be useful