The Go Programming Language

1.1 Hello, World

We’ll start with the now-traditional “hello, world” example, which appears at the beginning of The C Programming Language, published in 1978. C is one of the most direct influences on Go, and “hello, world” illustrates a number of central ideas.

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gopl.io/ch1/helloworld

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, ")
}

Go is a compiled language. The Go toolchain converts a source program and the things it depends on into instructions in the native machine language of a computer. These tools are accessed through a single command called go that has a number of subcommands. The simplest ...