The Go tool

One of the convenient things about Go – as a programming language – is that a single tool handles all interactions with, and operations on, the source code. When installing Go, make sure that the go tool is in the searchable OS path so that you can invoke it from any command-line terminal. The user experience, regardless of the OS or platform architecture, is uniform and doesn't require any customization when moving from one machine to another.

IDEs also use the go tool to build and run code, report errors, and automatically format Go source code. The go executable accepts a verb as the first argument that determines what go tool function to apply to Go source files:

$ go 
Go is a tool for managing Go source code.
Usage:
     go <command> [arguments]
The commands are:
     bug         start a bug report
     build       compile packages and dependencies
     ...       
     mod         module maintenance
     run         compile and run Go program...