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Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by blinkingled »

lukehoban wrote: post #91
blinkingled wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

Thanks, but manual install fails with same error for golint and goreturns.

I ended up git cloning into my %GOPATH%\src\golang.org\x from https://go.googlesource.com/tools and https://go.googlesource.com/net - that seems to have fixed it.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by andrewingram »

I hate to be that guy, but I guess I will, because aesthetics are important to me when choosing a tool i'll be using for several hours a day.

I love how Atom looks. Alongside the nicer extension system, the aesthetics of the default theme are what lured me away from Sublime Text.

I sadly can't say the same for Visual Studio Code, which I hear so many great things about, but can't bring myself to use for more than a few minutes. From what i've been able to tell, the only visual customisation available is choosing the syntax colour theme.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by Lewisham »

jamra wrote: post #38
jalude wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I tried one recently (2 months ago) and no it's not good enough. The integrated debugger via delve is absolutely great.

Yeah, I am not a Vim shortcut aficionado at all, but not having . be repeat command was such a deal breaker for me.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by epoch1970 »

jve wrote: post #109
kampsy wrote: post #52

I like VsCode especially for js css and html5 stuff. The problem I have with it is that it starts to lag when my codebase gets larger eg above 600 lines. Thats the reason why I switch to Atom. I think Atom is the best free text editor.

I'm having almost 34k lines of code for some html file, over 6mb (yes, there is a specific purpose for such a large html file for particular processing) and it works flawlessly in VS Code. I remember searching for text editor that would handle the file nicely and allow working with it. Opening that file in the first VS Code release was a pleasant surprise that performance was good. If I remember correctly I tried Ato…

How is a 6 MB file, with only 34,000 lines, considered "large" these days?

Smartphones from a couple of years ago already had multi-core, multi-GHz processors, and 2 GB or more of RAM. A 6 MB file would fit into memory well over a hundred times, even assuming lots of overhead.

Any moderately reasonable text editor should be able to handle a file of that size with total ease, at least for the basic operations.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by sakopov »

I've been a .net dev for years now and it's such a joy to see stuff like this come out of MS. I'm a heavy VS user and haven't had the need to switch to VSC yet. I might check it out for angular/js apps.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by jonesb6 »

mmgutz wrote: post #147
jonesb6 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Jetbrain's IDEA with a Go plugin and it fits all my needs. Do you know how it compares to VS? Never got into VS myself and i'm hesitant to swap IDE's though I'd be willing to try if it's a significant improvement.

Most go-related plugins are reaching parity in that they mostly use the same background services and utilities to update the editor. My guess is Jetbrain's IDE has roughly the same features. FWIW, VS.code starts up much faster than WebStorm on my machine.

Good to know. When I switched from windows to ubuntu I saw WebStorm start-up improve 2-3x. Haven't tried VS.code yet but I've found JetBrains products to run very well on linux machines.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by ridiculous_fish »

lukehoban wrote: post #16

Maintainer of the extension here. Happy to answer any questions about VS Code or the Go support specifically.

Hi! My Go project directory has ~2 million data files under a directory called test. When I open the project directory, VS Code starts going through all of them, consuming a lot of memory and IO bandwidth. Is there a way to make it ignore that directory?

I tried "files.exclude" which hides it from the sidebar, but VS Code still tries to walk the entire directory tree.

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by coldtea »

berkeleynerd wrote: post #155
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.

The only thing holding me back is the lack of an integrated terminal. This is absolutely essential to my *nix workflow and I can't for the life of me imagine a reason to not include it. Otherwise, I love what I'm seeing here.

>This is absolutely essential to my nix workflow*

Well, most editors and even IDEs don't offer one.

>and I can't for the life of me imagine a reason to not include it.

The reason being that terminal semantics are hell difficult to implement, and doubly so in a web-based stack?

Re: Visual Studio Code for Go

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Post by berkeleynerd »

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 have the puri.sm librem 13" and really like it. The only issue I have so far is that I have to build a custom kernel if I want to use the more advanced touchpad features on a stock debian install.
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