endless-sky-vscode-devcontainer VS godevcontainer

Adding on in case anyone is curious. Here's my example using open source game development https://github.com/samrocketman/endless-sky-vscode-devcontainer

In my C++/Rust video game project, I contribute to the open source game Endless Sky (ES). The ES devs do not want IDE specific files mixed with their source code. So this devcontainer is externalized in a separate repository which allows me to use the full power of all of their GitHub actions in VSCode. This also has over a dozen tasks for 1 click productivity operations.

Endless Sky game. C++ developing a Game Engine. VSCode project external to the source code. The source must be cloned separately and locally on your machine. This project actually has several devcontainers for different parts of the Endless Sky community. Go to repository root to see others. Fully integrated with the gdb debugger to set breakpoints. Runs all of the project GitHub actions from several VSCode tasks including code reformatting and app packaging.

Installing the Go extension in VScode should prompt you to install what's needed. Otherwise you can use https://github.com/qdm12/godevcontainer ;)

If you have Docker installed and use VScode, you could try https://github.com/qdm12/godevcontainer which sets up your dev environment in a container so it's more reproducible.

I am the maintainer of godevcontainer which is a VSCode development container for Go.

VSCode + Docker using my image https://github.com/qdm12/godevcontainer will make your setup easy and reproducible for Go. I use it everywhere all the time.

If you have Docker installed and VScode you could use my development container qmcgaw/godevcontainer, I use it for every of my Go projects pretty much and it's sort of portable.

Jokes aside, yeah I do develop code for about everything inside development container (example)

Although I thought part 3 would be about dockerizing your Go dev environment, as in your workspace. I made and maintain godevcontainer to do that with Docker and use it all the time, for anyone curious.

Plus you can run your dev environment in a container (or remotely on a machine over ssh) which isn't really the case for Intellij. I use https://github.com/qdm12/godevcontainer with vscode.