Black Hat Go

1GO FUNDAMENTALS

This chapter will guide you through the process of setting up your Go development environment and introduce you to the language’s syntax. People have written entire books on the fundamental mechanics of the language; this chapter covers the most basic concepts you’ll need in order to work through the code examples in the following chapters. We’ll cover everything from primitive data types to implementing concurrency. For readers who are already well versed in the language, you’ll find much of this chapter to be a review.

Setting Up a Development Environment

To get started with Go, you’ll need a functional development environment. ...