A Go implementation of the kilo text editor.
Output of kilo main.go:
Ensure Go is installed.
On Linux, build and run the code:
make
This was extremely beneficial, rather quick, and really fun to port the original C tutorial to Go. There were several instances where my implementation differs from the C implementation because of modern Go changes. For example, the C implementation uses static variables but those don't exist in Go so I used globals. The C implementation also does several things with pointers that would be considered unsafe today and Go requires more lines of code to safely do a similar task. Finally, Go has a drastically different approach to error handling.
When the final feature (multi-line comment syntax highlighting) was complete, here's what make count had to say:
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Language files blank comment code
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Go 1 163 269 960
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Total: 1392
Just about 1k SLOC as promised.