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Go

1. Try it online

You can try the Go programming language on the official go.dev site, at the 'Try Go' section in the middle of the page.

2. Install

The official website provides installers for various operating systems, including Windows, MacOS. You can download the .msi file or .pkg file and double click to install the Go programming language.

If you use the homebrew(Linuxbrew of course), you can install it by the command below:

brew install go

If you use the Nix package manager, you can instantly install packages for the Go programming language by typing the command to the terminal.

nix-shell -p go

3. Writing codes and running them

This code below will print "Hello, World!!" to the console.

// hello.go
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello, World!!")
}

You can run the code with go run subcommand.

$ go run hello.go
Hello, World!!