Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL as it's commonly known, allows Windows 10 to run Linux inside Windows. We are going to have a look at WSL 1 since, as of the publishing of this article, WSL 2 is not officially released yet. After installing WSL 1, and enabling your preferred Linux distribution on it, you can set up Go as you would on a normal Linux installation. You should also install Go for Windows since the IDE will still run on the Windows side of things. With these two Go installations in place, some additional configuration is needed. Make sure to point the GOPATH both in Window

Hello again. This is the third, and final, article from our series on Go Modules. In this article, we'll cover how to version our project and manage the migration to a new major version. In case you missed the previous posts, here's a list of articles from the series: Starting with a new Go Module from scratch Creating a new project Adding dependencies to the project Running and debugging the application Dependencies and how to use them Changing the version of a dependency Using the vendoring mode Tidying up the modules in a project Visualizing the dependencies o

In this second article from our series on Go Modules, we'll cover how to manage project dependencies:. This series of articles is broken down into the following sections: Starting with a new Go Module from scratch Creating a new project Adding dependencies to the project Running and debugging the application Dependencies and how to use them Changing the version of a dependency Using the vendoring mode Tidying up the modules in a project Visualizing the dependencies of a project Versioning and migrating to a new major version Non-major version upgrading

Test-Driven Development, or TDD as it is commonly referred to, is the development process in which tests are written first, then the code to support them is created, and, when every test passes, code is refactored. Let's have a look at how the unique features of GoLand allow us to be proficient with this workflow. The general TDD workflow looks like this: write tests run tests to see that they fail write the code and make it pass the tests refactor the code (more…)

Development for Go Modules continues in Go 1.13 and the support GoLand has for them too. Today, we'll have a look at how to transform our development model to use them without hassle. This series of articles is broken down into the following sections: Starting with a new Go Module from scratch Creating a new project Adding dependencies to the project Running and debugging the application Dependencies and how to use them Changing the version of a dependency Using the vendoring mode Tidying up the modules in a project Visualising the dependencies of a project

In this blog post, we’ll explore how to work with Go Modules when creating new Go projects or working with existing ones. First, let’s create a new project by selecting New Project from the Welcome Screen. Then choose Go Modules (vgo) as the project type. We can then specify the location of the project, which can now be set outside of the GOPATH, to any directory in your system. Ensure that GOROOT points to a Go SDK which is 1.11 or newer. While Go 1.10 with the special vgo binary installed can be used, this is not recommended as vgo is not updated as frequently to be on par with the Go re