Thanks, everyone for your valuable comments. I think Brain is right. It 
might be an OS-related issue. I really like how active this group is. I 
look forward to coming back with more topics in the future. Stay Home. Stay 
Safe.

On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 10:17:36 PM UTC+6, Tanmay Das wrote:
>
> 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 voilà! 
>
> 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. :(
>

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