Go programming on a Raspberry Pi
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We show you how to create a Go web app that controls Raspberry Pi I/O.
Go, or GoLang [1], is used widely for web development. Created by Google in 2009, Go is one of the fastest growing programming languages. One of its advantages is speed: Go compiles directly to native executable files in Windows, macOS, iOS, and Linux operating systems. However, Go can also be run in interpreted mode, like Python, while debugging. In this article, I create a Go web app that talks to the Raspberry Pi hardware.
Getting Started
To install Go on a Rasp Pi, enter:
$ sudo apt-get install golang
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