Golo comes with a compiler that generates JVM bytecode in .class files. We will give more details in the chapter on interoperability with Java.

Compiling Golo files is straightforward:

$ golo compile --output classes samples/helloworld.golo
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This compiles the code found in samples/helloworld.golo and outputs the generated classes to a classes folder (it will be created if needed):

$ tree classes/
classes/
└── hello
    └── World.class

1 directory, 1 file
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