Good point. I had been meaning to do that for a while. Thanks for the nudge: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/issues/521
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vscode-go
An extension for VS Code which provides support for the Go language. We have moved to https://github.com/golang/vscode-go
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An extension for VS Code which provides support for the Go language. We have moved to https://github.com/golang/vscode-go
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 2 | 9 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Go for Visual Studio Code
An extension for VS Code which provides support for the Go language.
We have moved! 🏡 🚚 🏡
As of June 2020, our new home is https://github.com/golang/vscode-go.
For more on this, please see the below blog posts
The next phase of Go experience in VS Code
VS Code Go extension joins the Go project
Contributing
This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Please go through the Contributing Guide in the new repository.
Code of Conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or
contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
License
MIT
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
11 sourcesYou should submit an issue with a repro: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-go Go plugin is very much actively maintained.
In Visual Studio Code 1.6https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go
I believe you just search extensions for Go, and you're solid.
In Visual Studio Code 1.5Just in case anyone else got stuck in same matter, I got a reply here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/issues/165#issuecomme....
In Visual Studio Code for GoHi there!
I'm giving the Go plugin (latest) for VS Code (latest) a try but I'm not being able to rename code occurrences.
"Cannot rename due to errors: Error: Command failed /foo/go/bin/gorename -offset /Users/foo/go/src/github.com/foo/hello/hello.go:#79 -to helloNurse"
"rename: -offset \"/Users/foo/go/src/github.com/foo/hello/hello.go:#79\": no identifier at this position"
Do I have to do anything specific for it to work or it should just work?
Found a related issue (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/issues/165) which led me to (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1580) which is already merged, but I'm still not able to rename symbols.
Code: (tried to rename helloWorld to helloNurse)
'''
package main
import (
"fmt"
)
func main() {
helloWorld()
}
func helloWorld() {
fmt.Printf("hello, world\n")
}
'''
In Visual Studio Code for Go> VS 2015 also has a cool new feature that shows you references to each function right above the function declaration. Clicking on the reference count will open a quick jump contextual menu.
This feature is actually also available in VS Code[0], though only for C# currently. We should be able to add support for this in Go as well[1].
[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/editingevolved#_re...
[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/pull/75
In Visual Studio Code for GoThanks.
#2 is something we definitely want to do with the VS Code extension as well. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/issues/5
#1 is also a good idea, we currently offer a per-project setting to configure this, but could also guess better in the case that no GOPATH is set.
In Visual Studio Code for GoIf the automated install of the analysis tools doesn't work, you can always just manually install them into your GOPATH. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go#tools.
In Visual Studio Code for GoVisual Studio Code Official Golang Plugin
6 points · Open discussionDelve is an open source debugger for go. And many editors can work with delve such as Visual Studio Code. There is an animated gif of the debugger on the vscode-go page.
https://github.com/derekparker/delve
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go
In The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016