Testing Google Go on Ubuntu
Yesterday a few of you will have heard the news that Google recently launched a new programming language, named ‘Go‘.
Whilst I’m not a programmer, and exist far from the plain of ever pretending to be one – I do have some professional interests in playing with this. I’ll probably update this post a little later with some more, specific information when all can be revealed, but for now here’s a little taster:
root@gotest:~# 6g hello.go
root@gotest:~# 6l hello.6
root@gotest:~# ./6.out
hello, world
It works! This machine is an openvz container, running Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 and it works a treat, with the only exception that I couldn’t build Go with the standard ‘all.bash’ make script. I had to use the ‘make.bash’ script, instead for it to work – something about probing the network devices not working with the former script. Thanks go to Rob Pike from Google, whom seems to have been working pretty darn hard in the #go-wild IRC channel on Freenode recently!
Update: 34SP.com are now offering Google Go development environments, for those wishing to dabble!