go-tools

The meaning of vendoring in Go is squeezing a project’s all dependencies into its vendor directory. Since Go 1.6, if there is a vendor directory in current package or its parent’s directory, the dependency will be searched in vendor directory first. Govendor is such a tool to help you make use of the vendor feature. In the following example, I will demonstrate how to use govendor step by step: (1) To be more clear, I clean $GOPATH folder first: [Read More]

In Go, we have to declare a variable before we can use it. This is required and necessary for the compile time safety. Variables are not created at compile time. They are created at run time. The unnamed variables are pointers (like in C). Once we declare a type for a variable, it cannot be changed later. It is static. Declaring with var The var statement declares a list of variables with the type declared last. [Read More]