1.1.md

Go Setup

Local install (macOS)

The easiest way to install go is with brew, macOS' package manager.

brew install go

To ensure it has been installed, you can type:

go version
# or
go env

Exercises

Where is go actually installed? See anything in go env that is similar?

Hints:

• which <command> locates a binary.
• ls -l <file> will tell you if it's a symlink.
• a symlink can point to another symlink!

Tips

Working with different versions of go? Some options include asdf-golang or linking other brew versions. The simplest solution would probably be docker.

Further reading

The go playground is a great resource to quickly test snippets of code.

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