Test Go language

Thu 2025/05/22 Project golang / go

Overview

• installation: see https://arrizza.com/setup-common.html

Summary

This is a test of the Go language. Just trying to see if it is worth the learning curve.

• run

./doit           # does not build, just runs it
./do_build       # builds, then runs the executable
./do_lint        # invoke go lint and static check

• check if it is possible to move .mod and .work files from root directory to a sub-dir. Seems that Go has convention can make the root directory messy.
• currently the source is in:
  • app
  • services
  • main.go

Note that most of the normal scripts available for python/ruby/c/c++ are not fully available.

• do_check: need to install python venv
• do_doc: need to see if doxygen is able to generate doc for go modules
• do_cpip_update: needed? or could be used to publish the go executable
• do_gen: needed? only used in Android/C/C++ apps
• do_post_ver: needed when UTs are implemented
• do_update: needed?
• do_ut and do_ver: currently unimplemented

Notes

• has the beginnings of a logger, see services/logger
• other things needed to check:
  • how to do efficiently do modules with instance-like attributes.
  • reading/writing files
  • packages for json, cfg and other file formats
  • writing UTs
  • try out a bg thread
  • try out a socket call
  • try out CLI handling