The Go Programming Language Build version go1 Installing a binary distribution of the gc compiler Getting Started Introduction Download the Go tools Install the Go tools Windows Test your installation What's next Community resources Introduction Go is an open source project with a BSD-style license. There are two official Go compiler toolchains: the gc Go compiler and the gccgo compiler that is part of the GNU C Compiler (GCC). The gc compiler is the more mature and well-tested of the two. This page is about installing a binary distribution of the gc compiler. For information about installing the gc compiler from source, see Installing Go from source . For information about installing gccgo , see Setting up and using gccgo . Download the Go tools Visit the Go project's downloads page and select the binary distri...