Hands-On High Performance with Go

Go modules

Go modules were introduced in Go 1.11. They afford the ability to keep track of versioned dependencies within a Go code base. They are a collection of Go packages that are stored as a cohesive unit in a go.mod file within a project directory.

We will perform the following steps to initialize a new module:

1. We first execute go mod init repository:

go mod init github.com/bobstrecansky/HighPerformanceWithGogo: creating new go.mod: module github.com/bobstrecansky/HighPerformanceWithGo

2. After you've initialized this new module, you can build your Go package and execute it as you normally would. You'll have any imported modules from within your project saved in a go.mod file within your project's directory.

As an example, if we want ...