Question

I am trying to write a script in Go but I get this error:

bad interpreter: Permission denied

My super simple script is as follow:

#!/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.0.2/bin  
fmt.Println("Hello World")  

I don´t know if this is possible but I would really like to write scripts in Go since I like the language a lot.

Answer 1

Go isn’t a scripting language. Like in C you have to compile your source code to make an executable.

From the “Getting Started” :

Create a file named hello.go and put the following program in it:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Printf("hello, world\n")
}

Then run it with the go tool:

$ go run hello.go
hello, world

In the spirit of Python, there are attempts to make Go scripts kinda possible. Here’s for example what you can do with gorun :

#!/usr/bin/gorun

package main

func main() {
    println("Hello world!")
}

But that’s not really the logic of Go and that’s not nearly as simple as what you typed in your question.