Install Go Lang on MacOS with Homebrew!

I’ve started learning Go lang. It seems to be built by the right people with the right expectations. So, the first thing I did was install go on Mac with Homebrew.

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First of all export some paths, and save them in your .zshrc or .bashrc files for easy use. Use sudo if you get error.

# Go development

export GOPATH="${HOME}/.go"

export GOROOT="$(brew --prefix golang)/libexec"

export PATH="$PATH:${GOPATH}/bin:${GOROOT}/bin"

test -d "${GOPATH}" || mkdir "${GOPATH}"

test -d "${GOPATH}/src/github.com" || mkdir -p "${GOPATH}/src/github.com"

Then finally install go, with Homebrew.

brew install go

Also a bunch of dev tools!

go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc


go get github.com/golang/lint/golint

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And we’re done. Let me know if you have any issues.

Peace! ✌

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