I know, I know, there are a million of these things out there now. Well, now there are a million and one.

I've wanted to learn Go for some time now, and while on a long holiday it felt like the right time. Because the network libraries seemed so straightforward, I thought I'd take a crack at a legitimate TCP client/server thing.

This project is useless for anything but demonstration, so enjoy, don't consider it to be idiomatic or well-written, but it does work. It manages error states fairly well, which is to say it should never panic.

Hey, look, it uses flag, how quaint!

Run the server like so:

go run server.go -port 8000

And then connect to it with the client like so:

go run client.go -host localhost -port 8000

The command line arguments shown are the default values, you can omit them to connect to localhost on port 8000. Or, of course, you can connect to some other host where the server is running.

This is "do whatever you want with it"-ware. There is nothing here that is particularly novel or valuable. Obviously this software comes with no warranty of any kind. It might cause your computer to become self-aware and destroy you. I take no responsibility for any outcomes, Skynet or otherwise.