My article for OSFY August 2013 issue

The August 2013 issue of Open Source for You has an article that I wrote about the Go Programming Language.

The Go programming language

Just installed the Go programming language on my iMac.


$ sudo port install go
--->  Computing dependencies for go
--->  Fetching archive for go
--->  Attempting to fetch go-1.0.2_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/go
--->  Attempting to fetch go-1.0.2_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/go
--->  Attempting to fetch go-1.0.2_0.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/go
--->  Fetching distfiles for go
--->  Attempting to fetch go1.0.2.src.tar.gz from http://her.gr.distfiles.macports.org/mirrors/macports/mpdistfiles/go
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for go
--->  Extracting go
--->  Configuring go
--->  Building go
--->  Staging go into destroot
Warning: go installs files outside the common directory structure.
--->  Installing go @1.0.2_0
--->  Activating go @1.0.2_0
--->  Cleaning go
--->  Updating database of binaries: 100.0%
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
--->  No broken files found.
$ go version
go version go1.0.2