So we’re not holding any punches. Rather we’re going to dive right into the go tooling and look at go build. I will caveat, however, that go build is quite a beefy tool. Just get to a command line and run go build –help. Yowza! But don’t be intimidated! We’ll look at all of the options, but not all at once. We’ll chunk this command up into two parts to make them more digestible. This is the first part, and should cover most of your goings with go build

The old adage is “a poor craftsman blames his/her tools.” The golang tools should never suffer such defacements; they are simply sublime. However, even the fanciest (or for that matter simplest) hammer can mash a finger if used improperly.

I want to kick this new blog off in style! If I was learning a new programming language, the firstest¹ program would be helloworld (abbreviated hellow). But what is the hellow equivalent for the blog scape? Is there one? Where did hellow even come from?