Emacs (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/), Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/), and Vim (https://www.vim.org/) are code editors that work on Windows. I use Vim on macOS. Emacs and Vim will take longer to learn than Notepad++.
These editors let you open and modify code files (right click on the file, click on “open with”, pick the editor) but you then have to process the files to work. The Go command line tools do this and are meant to be simple, and you can use them through cmd.exe after installing Go (cmd.exe is included with Windows already and might be called “Command Prompt” in the start menu). If “go help” works in cmd.exe then you’ve correctly installed Go. The installation instructions at https://golang.org/doc/install say this for Windows: You may need to restart any open command prompts for the change to take > effect. An advanced editor (an Integrated Development Environment, IDE) like the mentioned Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) will do the command prompting for you. To pick where to put your code files you’ll need to setup the workspace, see https://golang.org/doc/code.html#Workspaces GitHub is a good place to see examples of real projects: https://github.com/topics/go I found these websites with Google Search at https://google.com Which version of Windows are you using? Matt On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 12:27:52 AM UTC-5, John wrote: > > Hello I am just a random person in this small planet of the creation > that happens to think that artificial intelligence will take over the world > of jobs in the future. With that point of I started to learn Java Script on > Khan Academy but didn't quite make that much progress. So I think that now > it is time for me to do some serious coding with my OWN launcher or > compiler. And after a while I chosen go and got me here. But before I join > this group I tried to download the compiler but it didn't quite work. When > I finished downloading the 65 MSI installer it only gave me the option to > delete the itself or itself and maybe the actual go compiler or repair > itself, which when I clicked it it ran something and nothing visually > changed. The source I was unable to open for some reason, the computer says > it is to big and needs something program to open it. I tried the Internet > Explorer but it didn't do anything. But when i clicked the store it shows > me that if I have a Microsoft account it can download an program that can > open the source which I don't have. By the way I am on a Windows computer. > So please Gophers help me become a Gopher too. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
