Go Installation and IDE Setup

Using Go Playground

To learn the basics of go language you don't need to Install Go in your computer, you can start with Go Playground - https://go.dev/play/.

Install Go

If you prefer to install go programming language in our computer click the link https://go.dev/doc/install, download and install go for your preferred OS.

Editor of your choice

• Visual Studio Code with Go Extension

• Neovim with lazyvim setup, here is how you can enable Go extras from lazyvim. If you want to learn more about this setup visit https://www.lazyvim.org/extras/lang/go

  • Open nvim and type :LazyExtras

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      Go to Disabled section and find lang.go language, e.g /lang.go

• Press x from your keyboard to enable the go language plugin

And you are all set, now you are ready to write your go programs.