[go/en] Go - link to playground version of lerngo.go

[kylelemons]

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/go/

It would be awesome if there were a link to open that file up in the playground, where people could play around with it in addition to reading it.

[jcbohin]

Actually, it would be a really good idea, although the sandboxing environment provided by go playground prevents some of the interactions (mostly network ones) we use in the code right now. This is the actual code in playground.

I'll take a look to create a playground gist with current learnxinyminutes without those calls if it complies with learnxinyminutes policy.

[jcbohin]

I just sent an email to golang-dev to see if it's ok to link (although I'm pretty sure it is) to playground from learnxinyminutes.

[jcbohin]

Good news n# 1 is that playground maintainer seems dedicated to enforce playground URL to last forever.

[kylelemons]

The playground has a fake clock, fake filesystem and fake networking now,
so you may actually be able to update the playground version to work.

[jcbohin]

Yes, apparently, but we should modify quite heavily the examples since it's basically mocking networking, the control flow won't go far...

[kylelemons]

You could add something like an init function after main() that creates the
mock files and does the other half of network communication