On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 6:08:26 PM UTC-4, brainman wrote: > > > On Thursday, 12 October 2017 02:34:49 UTC+11, Pat Farrell wrote: > > https://golang.org/doc/install > > This one says "... Next, make the directory src/hello inside your > workspace ...". And, I take it, you skipped that step. >
Yes, I didn't understand what a "workspace" is. Still don't know what that buzzword means. So I created a directory in my sandbox called 'go' and got go.exe > > ... Microsoft has decided to provide a real bash shell with real Ubuntu > utilities. It has apt-get and is pretty nice, way better than the old cmd > shell > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about > > If you want to use WSL, then you should treat it as Linux (because it is > not Windows). So you should install Linux version of Go on WSL, not Windows > version. And WSL is not supported by Go yet (see > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16628 for details). > That thread is at least a year old. Back then it was in Beta from MS. Its released now. I know, almost all developers use either OS-X or a Linux for development. I did too when I did it full time. But I'm trying to learn go and while I have three or four Linux machines and an OS-X one, my day to day laptop is Windows because I need Lightroom, Photoshop and Premier, and I am tired of paying for Apple's over priced, under performing laptops. Go is claimed to be cross platform, and the language sure looks to be that way. But the installation instructions on Windows seem to be an afterthought and fairly out of date. I wish the world's desktops were not Windows, but I'm not in charge of that. I'm surprised that the default Windows binary installation still installs the gnu / cygwin stuff which has never "supported" anything. > I hope it helps. > The information does. Thanks If there needs to be tips or hints about which go setup to use on Windows, that sounds good to me. Maybe even a discussion of why you would want to use one approach (with cygwin) against another (using WSL) -- 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.
