Go Fundamentals and Tooling
Install the toolchain, learn the module system, and get comfortable with the commands you'll type every day.
Prerequisites: a terminal and admin rights to install software — no prior Go experience required.
Version note: verified against current docs as of July 2026. Go 1.26 (released February 2026) is the current stable release, with 1.25 still supported under Go's two-latest-major-release policy — everything here targets the common 1.25/1.26 feature set.
Go ships a batteries-included toolchain — formatter, dependency manager, test runner, and vet checker — all under one go command, so there's no ecosystem of competing build tools to choose between. This project sets up a working Go 1.26 environment, creates your first module, and walks through the commands you'll reach for constantly: build, run, fmt, vet, and mod tidy.
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