DAdanwakefield·Jul 6, 2016
Switch out gofmt for goimports (https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports) to fix the errors on save with your editor / ide
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bradfitz / goimports
goimports
(old repo) Tool to fix (add, remove) your Go imports automatically.
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7 sources> But I couldn't work in go without: https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports
I think this statement makes both points simultaneously.
In 400 days of GoNot commenting on the bigger picture about philosophy. But I couldn't work in go without:
https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports
In 400 days of Go> Go basically forces you to have clean code all along,
> which is a bit like forcing a scientist to wipe down the
> workbench and rinse all the beakers between every experiment,
>or forcing a writer to run the spell checker after every cigarette.
As usage of gofmt is idiomatic Go, simply using the superset goimports handles all of this for you.
Sure, any language has tools to reformat code for you in some magic ways - but what makes Go special is that it takes this kind of tooling seriously enough by making it standard right out-of-the-box and right when initiating new users to the language (notice the [Format] button on the first slide of the official Go tutorial http://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 ).
https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports
http://michaelwhatcott.com/gosublime-goimports/
Nevertheless, this new article from Evan is a marvel,
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a must-read, as usual.
I wasn't a huge fan of LiteIDE when I tried it. I prefer GoSublime[1] with SublimeCodeIntel[2], with goimports[3] for my gofmt command. The combo of the three is really awesome.
[1] https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime
[2] https://github.com/SublimeCodeIntel/SublimeCodeIntel
[3] https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports
In Space Monkey dumps Python for GoJust use goimports which is removing/adding imports automatically based on your source code: https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports
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