prologic

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

windytan

# Oona Räisänen 2013
# http://windytan.com

# ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | perl emoji.pl

@emoji = qw( 🌀  🌂  🌅  🌈  🌙  🌞  🌟  🌠  🌰  🌱  🌲  🌳  🌴  🌵  🌷  🌸 
             🌹  🌺  🌻  🌼  🌽  🌾  🌿  🍀  🍁  🍂  🍃  🍄  🍅  🍆  🍇  🍈 
             🍉  🍊  🍋  🍌  🍍  🍎  🍏  🍐  🍑  🍒  🍓  🍔  🍕  🍖  🍗  🍘 
             🍜  🍝  🍞  🍟  🍠  🍡  🍢  🍣  🍤  🍥  🍦  🍧  🍨  🍩  🍪  🍫 
             🍬  🍭  🍮  🍯  🍰  🍱  🍲  🍳  🍴  🍵  🍶  🍷  🍸  🍹  🍺  🍻