It was suggested by Mark Mishyn to use slice but there is no reason to create array with make and use in for returned slice of it when array created via literal can be used and it's shorter

for i := range [5]int{} {
        fmt.Println(i)
}

I would use math package for getting the maximal and minimal values for integers:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "math"
)

func main() {
    // integer max
    fmt.Printf("max int64   = %+v\n", math.MaxInt64)
    fmt.Printf("max int32   = %+v\n", math.MaxInt32)
    fmt.Printf("max int16   = %+v\n", math.MaxInt16)

    // integer min
    fmt.Printf("min int64   = %+v\n", math.MinInt64)
    fmt.Printf("min int32   = %+v\n", math.MinInt32)

    fmt.Printf("max float64 = %+v\n", math.MaxFloat64)
    fmt.Printf("max float32 = %+v\n", math.MaxFloat32)

    // etc you can see more int the `math`package
}

Output:

max int64   = 9223372036854775807
max int32   = 2147483647
max int16   = 32767
min int64   = -9223372036854775808
min int32   = -2147483648
max float64 = 1.7976931348623157e+308
max float32 = 3.4028234663852886e+38

Package strconv

func ParseInt

func ParseInt(s string, base int, bitSize int) (i int64, err error)

ParseInt interprets a string s in the given base (2 to 36) and returns the corresponding value i. If base == 0, the base is implied by the string's prefix: base 16 for "0x", base 8 for "0", and base 10 otherwise.

The bitSize argument specifies the integer type that the result must fit into. Bit sizes 0, 8, 16, 32, and 64 correspond to int, int8, int16, int32, and int64.

The errors that ParseInt returns have concrete type *NumError and include err.Num = s. If s is empty or contains invalid digits, err.Err = ErrSyntax; if the value corresponding to s cannot be represented by a signed integer of the given size, err.Err = ErrRange.

ParseInt always returns an int64 value. Depending on bitSize, this value will fit into int, int8, int16, int32, or int64. If the value cannot be represented by a signed integer of the size given by bitSize, then err.Err = ErrRange.

The Go Programming Language Specification

Numeric types

The value of an n-bit integer is n bits wide and represented using two's complement arithmetic.

int8        the set of all signed  8-bit integers (-128 to 127)
int16       the set of all signed 16-bit integers (-32768 to 32767)
int32       the set of all signed 32-bit integers (-2147483648 to 2147483647)
int64       the set of all signed 64-bit integers (-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807)

There is also a set of predeclared numeric types with implementation-specific sizes:

uint     either 32 or 64 bits
int      same size as uint

int is either 32 or 64 bits, depending on the implementation. Usually it's 32 bits for 32-bit compilers and 64 bits for 64-bit compilers.

To find out the size of an int or uint, use strconv.IntSize.

Package strconv

Constants

const IntSize = intSize

IntSize is the size in bits of an int or uint value.

For example,

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "runtime"
    "strconv"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Println(runtime.Compiler, runtime.GOARCH, runtime.GOOS)
    fmt.Println(strconv.IntSize)
}

Output:

gc amd64 linux
64