For a small language, Go has a lot of ways to declare variables. There’s a reason for this: each declaration style communicates something about how the variable is used. Let’s go through the ways you can declare a variable in Go and see when each is appropriate. The most verbose way to declare a variable in…

Here’s a sample Makefile to add to our very simple project: Even if you haven’t seen a Makefile before, it’s not too difficult to figure out what is going on. Each possible operation is called a target. The .DEFAULT_GOAL defines which target is run when no target is specified. In our case, we are going to run the build target.…

There’s one more important tool for Go development, but this is one that you don’t install: The Go Playground

Out of the box, Go ships with many development tools. You access these tools via the go command. They include a compiler, code formatter, linter, dependency manager, test runner, and more. As we learn how to build high-quality idiomatic Go, we’ll explore many of these tools throughout the book. Let’s start with the ones that we use to…