Brief encounter with the Go language
I won't pretend my opinion on Go counts for much, but here are the results of my first encounters, following the installation guide.
$ cat >hello.go <<EOF
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Printf("hello, world\n")
}
EOF
$ 6g hello.go
$ 6l hello.6
$ ./6.out
hello, world
Go is a compiled language. So how does the binary stack up against C compiled programs?
$ ls -sk 6.out 624 6.out
Wow, 624KB (against 8.5KB for the same in C, on Mac OS X 10.6). But:
$ otool -L 6.out 6.out:
So, no shared libraries. The result's completely self-contained.
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