Developing Go on Windows with WSL2

In this video, I show you how to set up Windows for developing Go applications with WSL2. You will learn how to install WSL2 and Ubuntu on Windows and how you can use it and Visual Studio Code for developing Go applications.

Understanding Linux and the common workflow and tools are essential when developing microservices as it is the environment that your code will ultimately be deployed to. WSL2 allows you to bring the best of Windows while running the power of Linux under the covers. In my humble opinion, this is the best way to write Go code on Windows and a method I use every day.

We will walk through all the steps of installing the software and setting up your environment before testing things out by creating a simple Go web application. This video is not intended to be a comprehensive introduction to Go or Linux but shows you the best way for developing Go code on Windows.

Installing WSL on Windows:

Installing Go:

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:25 Enabling WSL for Widows
04:58 Enabling Virtual Machine Platform for Windows
05:55 Updating the WSL2 Kernel
06:33 Setting WSL2 as the default for new Linux distributions
07:42 Installing Ubuntu on Windows
11:26 Installing Visual Studio Code
13:58 Installing Go
20:24 Installing VS Code Go Extension
21:12 Creating a simple application
29:45 Using Go packages

[kajalkhirodkar]

Thanks a lot. This was the only video that explained clearly the process of installing go through WSL. This cleared out all my doubts. Very well explained.

[esra_erimez]

I just discovered this channel, will be binge watching. And, subbed.

[najamawan]

hey look who is back. I have been waiting so long for your video hope everything is all ok with you.

[JRSkola]

So much better than several other videos/walkthroughs!

[nellystanford]

This video helped me a lot! Thank you.

[hoangduyang]

Hey Nic, glad to see your videos.
Loved your microservice playlist, if possible do add more videos. Thanks much?
😎😎😎😎

[che_coelho]

This is really helpful, even if just jumping in for a chapter here and there.

[GilbertoTheves]

Great video helped me a lot. During the test I noticed that the "hello Word" is on the same line in the terminal because you are using the 'Fprint()' command which does not have a line break, if you use 'Fprintln()' the line break will happen normally.

[AdarshSingh-bjsm]

Hey Nic, glad to see your videos.
Loved your microservice playlist, if possible do add more videos. Thanks much.

[nshavotwala]

This is wonderful. Thank you very much Nic.

[alfredoolmedo]

Thanks and very well explained. Keep the good work

[omaroobaniessa]

Welcome back Nic!.. Kindly asking for a video on go routines

[TheFentonz]

Thank you very much! I like how you explain all the little commands aswell!

[Bagas]

wow... this is so clear... man, thank you.

[mnreal]

Thanks for posting again and I hope you are doing well Nic. Your videos have been really helpful for me!

[filipeandrade]

Hello Nic, as always really nice video, thank you!

[AkhilSharmaTech]

WASL2 is awesome! been using it since a while now and it's very convenient.

[OmarMendozaKS]

I finally got through the installation of go, thanks man.

[aakashwork]

Thanks Nick, this was really helpful was able to setup everything and now I develop on my Windows machine as well. Very well explained.

[baole]

I want to become an distributed system engineer like you . thanks for video ^^