Chapter 3. Packaging and tooling
In this chapter
- Understanding how Go code is organized
- Using the Go command
- Going farther with other Go developer tools
- Collaborating with other Go developers
In chapter 2 you got an overview of the syntax and language structure of Go. Now you’ll dive deeper into how code is organized into packages and how you interact with those packages. Packages are a critical concept in Go. The idea is to separate semantic units of functionality into different packages. When you do this, you enable code reuse and control the use of the data inside each package.
Before we get into the particulars, you should already be familiar with the command prompt or system shell, and you should have Go installed according to the ...
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