Go Systems Programming

Two useful Go tools

The Go distribution comes with a plethora of tools that can make your life as a programmer easier. The two most useful of them are gofmt and godoc.

Note that go tool itself can also invoke various tools: you can see a list of them by executing go tool.

The gofmt utility formats Go programs in a given way, which is really important when different people are going to work with the same code for a big project. You can find more information about gofmt at https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/.

The following is a poorly formatted version of the hw.go program that is hard to read and understand:

$ cat unglyHW.go
package main
    
import
    "fmt"
    
// This is a demonstrative comment!
        func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello World!")
    
}

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