Overview of the Standard Library
This lesson emphasizes the importance of packages and provides one-line descriptions of some famous packages from the standard Go library.
We'll cover the following...
Introduction #
The Go-distribution contains over 250 standard built-in packages for common functionality, like fmt, os, … , designated as the standard library written in the Go language itself (besides some low-level routines). See the documentation here. The API in all packages (included package os) is the same for all systems (Windows, Linux, …); the only package that is different for each system is syscall. In the examples and exercises throughout the course, we use the packages of the standard library.
Common packages
Here we will discuss the general purpose of a number of common packages grouped by function; we will not go into detail about their inner structure.
unsafe: contains commands to step out of the Go