This is part 3 of my journey learning Golang. Package declaration The first line of a Go source file is the “package declaration”, defined by the package keyword. This serves a few purposes: It provides a structure for grouping related source files. It provides a mechanism for code reuse. It differentiates between …

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This is part 2 of my journey learning Golang. Compiling Go programs An individual Go source file can be compiled with the go build command: 1go build {filename}.go That will produce an executable binary file if the source’s package is main (see Part 3 for more on packages). The resulting binary can be executed with …

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This is part 1 of my journey learning Golang. The Go programming language (Golang) is becoming more relevant by the day. It is, famously, the language of the Docker and Kubernetes projects. Both have had a huge impact on how companies run applications, and I develop for them on a daily basis. Golang is also seeing …

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