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Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by lukehoban »

blinkingled wrote: post #80
namelezz wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For this extension to work, you need to install several Go tools in GOPATH. How did you manage your GOPATH across multiple projects? Do you have a single GOPATH for every project or each project has its own GOPATH?

Gaah, I thought this will provide me with some motivation to try writing some Go code but can't even get started with installing the analysis tools - cannot find package "golang.org/x/tools/go/types". Anyway will debug that one later but if anyone has a hint, go ahead.

If 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.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by schmichael »

jalude wrote: post #21
schmichael wrote: post #14

We're a 100% Go shop and everyone on my team but me uses Visual Studio Code for Go. It's really amazing. (My mind has just been so corrupted by years of vim usage I'm trapped.) It's bizarre to think my team writes in a language created by Google in an editor created by Microsoft on System76 laptops running Ubuntu. Never would have been possible in the Gates or Ballmer eras.

I want to start using Visual Studio Code but I am waiting for a VIM emulator plugin that is "good enough" have you tried any of them?

While I'm far from a vim pro, I've never found a vim plugin that didn't frustrate me. Hence I've been stuck in vim because my brain just can't get used to non-modal editing.

Just heard from a coworker after I posted this he's switching back to vim because the vim plugin for VS Code isn't quite there.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by carussell »

frik wrote: post #73
schmichael wrote: post #14

We're a 100% Go shop and everyone on my team but me uses Visual Studio Code for Go. It's really amazing. (My mind has just been so corrupted by years of vim usage I'm trapped.) It's bizarre to think my team writes in a language created by Google in an editor created by Microsoft on System76 laptops running Ubuntu. Never would have been possible in the Gates or Ballmer eras.

Has VS Code still the phone home feature, that can't be turned off? (no it's not okay to sniff on my data or usage, on my computer!)

If you build from source, osscode will never connect to those endpoints.

Alternatively, you can just edit them out of the product.json from the release build that you download from MS.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by schmichael »

kozukumi wrote: post #60
coolsunglasses wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which System76 laptops? I'm in the market for a Linux-native laptop which'll compile faster than my MBP.

Not the same person as parent but I wouldn't recommend System 76 personally. I got caught up in the hype and got a Lemur 14" but the build quality is pretty poor and I had awful keyboard issues (since fixed I believe). If you want something that runs Linux well I have stuck with ThinkPad's. You really can't beat them in terms of performance, reliability and Linux support.

We have ~2 year old Gazelle's and the build quality is so bad. The stats are great, but the cases are creaky cheap plastic, the screens scratch/fade easily, the door over the ethernet port breaks easily, the keyboard and trackpad are subpar.

By the numbers I'd go for System 76 again, but if the chassis isn't any better these days I'd probably go back to Lenovo.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by itslennysfault »

melling wrote: post #23
schmichael wrote: post #14

We're a 100% Go shop and everyone on my team but me uses Visual Studio Code for Go. It's really amazing. (My mind has just been so corrupted by years of vim usage I'm trapped.) It's bizarre to think my team writes in a language created by Google in an editor created by Microsoft on System76 laptops running Ubuntu. Never would have been possible in the Gates or Ballmer eras.

Can anyone who uses Visual Studio Code compare its functionality to the native Visual Studio? I forgot about this project because it's seldom mentioned: https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

I use VSCode daily and I love it.

I've always been a fan of lightweight text editors and always choose speed over piles of functionality. To me Visual Studio feels like trying to run while wearing cement shoes. It takes forever to load and crashes/freezes far too often for my taste.

VSCode is amazingly light weight and stable and brings in IntelliSense, basic refactoring tools, and pretty solid git integration.

If you're used to using a full-featured IDE like Visual Studio (etc) you'll probably find VSCode lacking (but blazingly fast). If you're used to using sublime, atom, etc... You'll find VSCode to be feature rich and comparably fast.

(I work at Microsoft, but not on VSCode or Visual Studio. These opinions are my own and don't represent Microsoft)

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by schmichael »

coolsunglasses wrote: post #54
schmichael wrote: post #14

We're a 100% Go shop and everyone on my team but me uses Visual Studio Code for Go. It's really amazing. (My mind has just been so corrupted by years of vim usage I'm trapped.) It's bizarre to think my team writes in a language created by Google in an editor created by Microsoft on System76 laptops running Ubuntu. Never would have been possible in the Gates or Ballmer eras.

Which System76 laptops? I'm in the market for a Linux-native laptop which'll compile faster than my MBP.

Getting 16gb of RAM in a laptop (without having to add any yourself) is fantastic. As I said below, by the numbers System76s are fantastic.

Just make sure their chassis/build quality is better than it was a couple years ago. Otherwise in a year you'll have broken bits and a faded scratched screen.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by carussell »

mmgutz wrote: post #49
schmichael wrote: post #14

We're a 100% Go shop and everyone on my team but me uses Visual Studio Code for Go. It's really amazing. (My mind has just been so corrupted by years of vim usage I'm trapped.) It's bizarre to think my team writes in a language created by Google in an editor created by Microsoft on System76 laptops running Ubuntu. Never would have been possible in the Gates or Ballmer eras.

VS.Code + the go plugin is quite good. I recommend it to my team members who prefer GUI-based editors. VS.Code is surprisingly much faster than Atom even though they share the same electron editor. I think vim + vim-go is still the best go editor if you know vim. It just works and it gets updated frequently.

There's no such thing as the electron editor. Electron is just a framework for making desktop apps using the client-side layers of the Web stack. It's basically a a little bit more than a glorified Chromium install, minus the browser chrome.

The editors in VSCode and Atom are completely different implementations.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by schmichael »

namelezz wrote: post #62
schmichael wrote: post #14

We're a 100% Go shop and everyone on my team but me uses Visual Studio Code for Go. It's really amazing. (My mind has just been so corrupted by years of vim usage I'm trapped.) It's bizarre to think my team writes in a language created by Google in an editor created by Microsoft on System76 laptops running Ubuntu. Never would have been possible in the Gates or Ballmer eras.

For this extension to work, you need to install several Go tools in GOPATH. How did you manage your GOPATH across multiple projects? Do you have a single GOPATH for every project or each project has its own GOPATH?

At work we have a monorepo and therefore a single GOPATH (we use a tool called glock for dependency pinning).

A monorepo a fantastic way to live, but I totally understand that it doesn't work for everyone.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by zeveb »

coolsunglasses wrote: post #54
schmichael wrote: post #14

We're a 100% Go shop and everyone on my team but me uses Visual Studio Code for Go. It's really amazing. (My mind has just been so corrupted by years of vim usage I'm trapped.) It's bizarre to think my team writes in a language created by Google in an editor created by Microsoft on System76 laptops running Ubuntu. Never would have been possible in the Gates or Ballmer eras.

Which System76 laptops? I'm in the market for a Linux-native laptop which'll compile faster than my MBP.

I bought a System76 years ago. It was great as long as I was running Ubuntu, but requires proprietary drivers which have been extremely flaky under Debian. Now I recommend zareason to folks who ask. Typing this comment on a zareason system right now, and I'm extremely happy with it.
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