Installing Go on Windows 10 with Scoop (apt-get) in 3 Minutes

In this video, we will show you how to install Go Programming Language on Windows 10 with Scoop (apt-get).

As you know, Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Go is recognizably in the tradition of C, but makes many changes to improve brevity, simplicity, and safety. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction.

Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows. It looks like apt-get on Ubuntu / Debian or Homebrew on Mac OS X, so that Scoop helps you get the programs you need, with a minimal amount of point-and-clicking. And these are some steps to install Go on Windows 10 with Scoop:

STEP #1 » Open Windows Powershell.

STEP #2 » Run these commands to install Scoop.

$ set-executionpolicy remotesigned -s cu → Choose Y
$ scoop help

STEP #3 » Install Go with Scoop.

$ scoop search go
$ scoop install go
$ go --help

That's all.

Additionally, these are 5 reasons why you need to use Go for next projects:

1. Go is Multi-platform → It has plenty of built-in language features that enable easy cross-platform development. First of all, you need to be aware of what you already have at your disposal built into the language in a standard library.

2. Go is free → Go was created at Google by Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer, and Ken Thompson and then released as an open-source project in 2009.

3. Git is fast → As many Gophers point out, Golang has the speed of a compiled language, but the feel of an interpreted language. So you can write the code fast, and even faster compilation speeds allow for a rapid feedback style.

4. Go is Modern → Modern tasks require modern solutions. Golang was created with cloud computing in mind, which will arguably define the future of the tech world. Moreover, it was designed considering the possibilities opened by modern hardware architectures and the needs of our age computing problems.

5. Go is Safe → In Go, every variable must have a type associated with it, so a developer has to be meticulous and can’t skip details which might then lead to bugs.

Thank you for watching our video tutorial.