go-progrmming-notes.rst

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    Go Programming Notes

Installation
To install Go in a 64 bit GNU/Linux:
cd $HOME
wget -c https://go.googlecode.com/files/go1.1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar zxvf go1.1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
mkdir mygo

You can download source and binary packages of Go from from here:
https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list
To set PATH and other environment variables, add these lines at the end of $HOME/.bashrc:
export GOROOT=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

export GOPATH=$HOME/mygo
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin


Running a program
To run a program:
go run <program.go>

Here is an example hello world program:
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Printf("Hello, world.\n")
}

Save the above code in a hello.go and run it like this:
go run hello.go


Resources

https://github.com/blaxill/static & https://github.com/ranveerkunal/memfs (Files in memory - reduce disk access)