This is part 6 of my journey learning Golang. Books and tutorials A Tour of Go: An introduction that covers the most important features of the language. An Introduction to Programming in Go: A free e-book from 2012. For the Love of Go: Fundamentals: An interactive introduction to the Go programming language, suitable …

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This is part 5 of my journey learning Golang. Inline comments Go ignores text to the right of //: 1// This entire line is ignored by the compiler. 2// fmt.Println("Does NOT print") 3fmt.Println("This gets printed!") // This part gets ignored Block comments All lines between /* and / will be ignored: 1/ 2This is …

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This is part 4 of my journey learning Golang. Function declarations Functions are reusable blocks of code. For example: 1func main () { 2 fmt.Println("Hello, World!") 3} The func keyword declares a function. It is followed by the function’s name, a list of arguments (delimited by parenthesis) and the function block …

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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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I am hosting my blog on GitHub Pages. I wanted to use my own domain name instead of a github.io subdomain. GitHub’s documentation is very helpful. Even so, it took me some effort to figure out all the details, so I’m going to share what I learned. These instructions are for using an “apex domain” e.g. …

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I decided to start a new blog to talk about software development. It’s been about 5 years since I last had a blog, so I went looking for what people are using in 2020. It turns out that Hugo is quite popular for building static sites. Two of its selling points are that it is super fast, and that people have built …

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