Development environment for Go language

Just then I spent about 15 minutes setting up my Mac as a development machine for go language. This is a concise list of steps to follow to setup a similar environment.

Steps to perform:

• Download the latest Go distribution from Go language website
• Open the downloaded package and follow the instructions
• The go runtime is installed at /usr/local/go/bin
• Edit ~/.bash_profile and make following changes

# Configuration for GO language
export GOPATH=~/Projects/go-workspace   # this will be the parent directory of all your GO projects
# Ensure go binaries are in the PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin

• Done! You should be good to Go…