It's a simple hello world program that doesn't require any go-gettable package:
package main import ( "fmt" ) func main() { fmt.Println("Hello World") } On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 10:30:31 PM UTC+6, Marvin Renich wrote: > > * Tanmay Das <tanma...@gmail.com <javascript:>> [200408 12:17]: > > Hey Gophers, > > My very first post here. > > > > Today I faced an unexpected power outage and I wanted to tinker with Go > a > > little bit. I wrote a simple hello world program and ran > > go run helloworld.go > > > > Strangely the code didn't run. In fact, the terminal prompt never > exited. I > > kept running the same command over and over again but no luck. I checked > > all my configurations, my env vars, etc. and everything was ok. After > > ruling out all the possibilities it suddenly hit me: what if Go actually > > requires an internet connection to run a program for no apparent reason? > I > > waited for the electricity to come back and as soon as I was connected > to > > the internet I ran `go run` command again and voilą! > > > > Is this behavior expected? If it is, why did the go authors make such a > > decision? I mean making the internet connectivity a dependency for the > > execution of a program sounds counter-productive to me, honestly. :( > > You didn't post any code, so it is really difficult to help you. No, Go > does not require an internet connection unless you write your program to > do so. > > The best way to get help here is to go to https://play.golang.org/ and > paste your code there (replacing what is there). Then click on the > "Share" button, and you will get a link that you can copy and paste into > a message to this group. > > This will allow us to see the code and help you unravel your problem. > > ...Marvin > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/01cc2afa-f423-4393-804b-f34fd8d87ed8%40googlegroups.com.