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 # ANTLR4 Language Target, Runtime for Go
 
-### Getting started
+### First steps
 
-1. Get the runtime and install it on your GOPATH: `go get github.com/antlr/antlr4`
-2. Generate the parser/lexer code: `antlr MyGrammar.g4 -Dlanguage=Go`
+#### 1. Install ANTLR4
 
-### Referencing in your code
+[The getting started guide](getting-started.md) should get you started.
 
-Reference the go runtime package like this:
+#### 2. Get the Go ANTLR runtime
+
+Each target language for ANTLR has a runtime package for running parser generated by ANTLR4. The runtime provides a common set of tools for using your parser.
+
+Get the runtime and install it on your GOPATH:
+
+```bash
+go get github.com/antlr/antlr4
+```
+
+#### 3. Set the release tag (optional)
+
+`go get` has no native way to specify a branch or commit. So, when you run it, you'll download the latest commits. This may or may not be your preference.
+
+You'll need to use git to set the release. For example, to set the release tag for release 4.6.0:
+
+```bash
+cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/antlr/antlr4 # enter the antlr4 source directory
+git checkout tags/4.6.0 # the go runtime was added in release 4.6.0
+```
+
+A complete list of releases can be found on [the release page](https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/releases).
+
+#### 4. Generate your parser
+
+You use the ANTLR4 "tool" to generate a parser. These will reference the ANTLR runtime, installed above.
+
+Suppose you're using a UNIX system and have set up an alias for the ANTLR4 tool as described in [the getting started guide](getting-started.md). To generate your go parser, you'll need to invoke:
+
+```bash
+antlr4 -Dlanguage=Go MyGrammar.g4
+```
+
+For a full list of antlr4 tool options, please visit the [tool documentation page](tool-options.md).
+
+### Referencing the Go ANTLR runtime
+
+You can reference the go ANTLR runtime package like this:
 
 ```go
 import "github.com/antlr/antlr4/runtime/Go/antlr"
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
+
+### Complete example
+
+Suppose you're using the JSON grammar from https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/tree/master/json.
+
+Then, invoke `antlr4 -Dlanguage=Go JSON.g4`. The result of this is a collection of .go files in the `parser` directory including:
+```
+json_parser.go
+json_base_listener.go
+json_lexer.go
+json_listener.go
+```
+
+Another common option to the ANTLR tool is `-visitor`, which generates a parse tree visitor, but we won't be doing that here. For a full list of antlr4 tool options, please visit the [tool documentation page](tool-options.md).
+
+We'll write a small main func to call the generated parser/lexer (assuming they are separate). This one writes out the encountered `ParseTreeContext`'s. Suppose the gen'ed parser code is in the `parser` directory relative to this code:
+
+```
+package main
+
+import (
+	"github.com/antlr/antlr4/runtime/Go/antlr"
+	"./parser"
+	"os"
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+type TreeShapeListener struct {
+	*parser.BaseJSONListener
+}
+
+func NewTreeShapeListener() *TreeShapeListener {
+	return new(TreeShapeListener)
+}
+
+func (this *TreeShapeListener) EnterEveryRule(ctx antlr.ParserRuleContext) {
+	fmt.Println(ctx.GetText())
+}
+
+func main() {
+	input := antlr.NewFileStream(os.Args[1])
+	lexer := parser.NewJSONLexer(input)
+	stream := antlr.NewCommonTokenStream(lexer,0)
+	p := parser.NewJSONParser(stream)
+	p.AddErrorListener(antlr.NewDiagnosticErrorListener(true))
+	p.BuildParseTrees = true
+	tree := p.Json()
+	antlr.ParseTreeWalkerDefault.Walk(NewTreeShapeListener(), tree)
+}
+```
+
+This one expects the input to be passed on the command line:
+
+```
+go run test.go input
+```
+
+The output is:
+
+```
+{"a":1}
+{"a":1}
+"a":1
+1
+```