Development - Getting Started

This guide assumes you are using WSL 2 however much of the advice should generalise to Linux or OSX. If you have any issues just chuck a message on the discord.

Setting up your local environment

In order to get started coding you need to have the following setup:

Ideally you are coming here from Jacky’s getting started guide so you should already have Docker setup, if not please give that guide a read: https://compclub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/WM2/pages/2159542386 . Much of this guide will be focused on setting up Golang (a challenge in itself) and setting up an IDE such as Goland. If you dont want to use a fully fledged IDE then this guide will also cover how to setup Go debuggging on VS Code.

Setting up Go

At the time of writing this the most recent Go version is 1.17, hopefully by the time your reading this that the current version is 1.18 ( GENERICS!!) .