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Language of The Future — Learn To Program With Golang

Getting started with a fresh and new programming language in 2021

Bryan Dijkhuizen
4 min readNov 7, 2021
Photo by Oskar Yildiz on Unsplash

Go is an open-source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. In this article, I’ll make sure you get the fundamentals of the Go Programming Language.

Getting Started

First, we need to install the Go programming language. You can do that by clicking this link.

How to write code for Go

Go programs are organized into packages. A package is a collection of source files in the same directory that are compiled together. Functions, types, variables, and constants defined in one source file are visible to all other source files within the same package.

— How to Write Go Code — The Go Programming Language. https://golang.org/doc/code.html

To compile and run a simple program, choose a module path, and create a ‘go .mod’ file that declares it:

$ mkdir go-project
$ cd go-project
$ go mod init go-project
go: creating new go.mod: module go-project
$ cat go.mod module go-project
$

Next, create a file named app.go inside that directory containing the following Go code:

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
Bryan Dijkhuizen

Written by Bryan Dijkhuizen

Writing about the life of a neurodivergent creative in a neurotypical world. — https://bryandijkh.substack.com/

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