Go language tutorial
Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to construct simple, reliable, and efficient software.
Go was developed in late 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and later joined by Ian Lance Taylor, Russ Cox and others, and was finally open sourced in November 2009, and Go 1 stable was released in early 2012 Version. Go development is now fully open and has an active community.
Go language features
- Simple, fast and secure
- Parallel, interesting, open source
- Memory management, v-array safety, fast compilation
Go language usage
The Go language was designed as a systems programming language for hosting web servers, storage clusters, or giant central servers for similar purposes.
For the field of high-performance distributed systems, Go language undoubtedly has higher development efficiency than most other languages. It provides massive parallel support, which is perfect for game server development.
Go locale installation
The Go language supports the following systems:
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- Mac OS X (also known as Darwin)
- Window
The download address of the installation package is: https://golang.org/dl/ .
If you can't open it, you can use this address: https://golang.google.cn/dl/ .
Go environment variables
Create a working directory, such as E:\GOPATH
Add GOPATH environment variable
Add %GOPATH%\bin to Path
The first Go program
We go to the E:\GOPATH directory to create a folder src and create the source file main.og
Open a command line cd to this directory and type go run hello . go
you can see the following
Hello,World!