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Go Online Compiler & Interpreter

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About Go

Go was designed at Google to make large-scale software simple: near-instant compiles, one canonical code format, and goroutines that turn concurrency from a specialist topic into an everyday tool. It became the language of cloud infrastructure — Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform are all Go programs — and Uber, Cloudflare, and Twitch run major production services on it. Since generics landed in Go 1.18, the language has closed its biggest gap while keeping its famous readability. Paste a main package here and it compiles and runs in an interactive terminal: fmt.Scan and bufio.Reader consume a real stdin stream, so prompts pause for your answer just like a local binary.

Hello World in Go

package main

import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)

    fmt.Print("Enter your name: ")
    name, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')
    name = strings.TrimSpace(name)

    fmt.Print("Type a sentence: ")
    line, _ := reader.ReadString('\n')
    words := strings.Fields(line)

    fmt.Printf("Thanks, %s! Your sentence has %d words.\n", name, len(words))
    for i, w := range words {
        fmt.Printf("  %d: %s\n", i+1, w)
    }
}

When to use Go

Rehearse the Go interview canon — slices versus arrays, map iteration order, goroutine and channel patterns — with runnable evidence instead of guesswork, since backend roles at cloud-native companies increasingly screen in Go. Solve Advent of Code and HackerRank problems using the same bufio stdin parsing the judges expect, or test a strings, sort, or encoding/json snippet before it lands in a microservice. Engineers switching from Python or Java can translate familiar exercises here to absorb Go idioms quickly.

Common questions

Do fmt.Scan and bufio work with live stdin here?

Yes — your compiled program attaches to an interactive terminal, so fmt.Scan, fmt.Scanln, and bufio.Reader or bufio.Scanner all block until you type. Reading until EOF works too: press Ctrl+D to end input, exactly as a Go program run in a local shell would receive it.

Can I use goroutines and channels in this sandbox?

Absolutely — concurrency is part of the language runtime, not an external dependency. You can spawn goroutines, coordinate them with channels and sync.WaitGroup, and watch interleaved output stream to the terminal in real time, which makes this a good place to demystify select statements and deadlocks.

Are third-party modules from go get available?

No — the sandbox builds a single main package without network access, so external modules can't be fetched. Go's standard library compensates better than most: strings, sort, container/heap, net/url parsing, encoding/json, and time handle the bulk of practice and interview work natively.

How Go runs on XCODX

Sandbox filename
main.go
Entry point
single main source file
Editor grammar
go
Reading stdin
fmt.Scan() / bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin)
Input delivery
live WebSocket stream
Prompt flushing
flushes before reading input
Compile limit
10 s
Run limit
3 s batch · up to 3 min live
Memory
256 MB per stage
Max source
50,000 characters

Default program on this page

package main
import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello from Go!")
    fmt.Println("Welcome to XCODX Online Compiler!")
}