Get Started with Go

The Go programming language has a ton of great tutorials to help newcomers get started and seasoned developers deepen their understanding of the languages’s features. The included video gives a walk through of their introduction “Hello World” example. If you wanted to follow along, start with the Go documentation:

Tutorial: Get started with Go

The rest of this article will provide helpful resources on the commands used, the code written, and additional resources so you can dive even deeper!

Resources

• Installing Go
• Installing Go with Homebrew
• go version
• go mod init
• Managing Go dependencies
• go get
• go mod tidy
• go run
• go build
• Completed code in GitHub

Code

Initial hello world:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, world!")
}

Using a module:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"rsc.io/quote"
)

func main() {
fmt.Println(quote.Go())
}