Go

Go, the prodigal brainchild of various engineers, community enthusiasts (Gophers) and brilliant language/compiler developers, is perhaps Google’s best contribution to the Computer Science field.

Important Packages

os - contains the go code available for interacting with the operating system hosting a go executable

os.Args - a slice of strings that represent the command line arguments passed into a Go application’s runtime environment

Lingo

slice - a dynamically sized sequence of array elements. Individual elements can be accessed as

mySlice[i]

…chunks can be accessed as

mySlice[m:n]

…and the length is reported with

len(mySlice)

Conventions

zero values - any variable that’s not defined in its declaration takes what’s called a “zero value”

string –> “” (empty string)
numeric types –> 0

:= - the “short variable declaration” is the operator used in a statement to declare one or more variables and give them appropriate types based on the initializer value

x := 2 // initializes x to 2

Updating Go

$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
# Download latest tar from distribution (https://golang.org/dl/)
$ sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf <path-to-tarball>
# Edit GOROOT, GOPATH and PATH
$ echo $PATH | grep "/usr/local/go/bin"

Sources

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