Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to get Go on your computer, the features of the latest Go version, the advantages and disadvantages of Go, and the gofmt and godoc Go tools, as well as some important things about the Unix operating system.

The next chapter will not only tell you how to compile your Go code but it will also discuss other important Go topics such as reading and using command-line arguments, environment variables, writing functions, data structures, interfaces, getting user input, and printing output.