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Go is an open-source, statically typed, compiled programing language built by Google. It combines the simplest of both statically typed and dynamically typed languages and provides you with the proper mixture of efficiency and simple programming. It is primarily fitted to building fast, efficient, and reliable server-side or system applications.
Following are some noted features of Go -
Safety
Concurrency
Efficient Garbage Collection
High-speed compilation
Excellent Tooling support
Installing GO
Go binary distributions are available for all major operating systems like Linux, Windows, and macOS. It’s easy to install Go from the binary distributions or you can try installing Go from source.
MacOS X
Install GO in MacOS using Homebrew.
brew install go
Linux
Download Go for Linux from Go’s official download page.
tar -xvf go1.18.linux-amd64.tar.gz
It will create a directory named
go
.Move that
go
dir to/usr/local
where all other binaries reside.sudo mv go /usr/local echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin' >> ~/.bashrc # bashrc or zshrc depending upon your shell type
Custom Installation directory
Instead of moving
go
dir to/usr/local
you can choose any other dir.mkdir custom_go # just for demo, you can move to any dir of your choice mv go custom_go
Then set this custom location to
GOROOT
environment variable.export GOROOT=$HOME/go export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
and then test
go version go version go1.18 linux/amd64
To make
GOROOT
andPATH
permanent add them to.bashrc
or.zshrc
depending on which shell you are using or else yourGOROOT
will be unset once you end your terminal session or start a new terminal session.
Windows
Download the Windows installer from Go’s official download page. Open the installer and follow the on-screen instructions to install Go. By default, the installer installs Go in C:\Go
and add C:\go\bin
to your path environment variable.
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