godevcontainer VS gomempool

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.

For the case of needing a large amount of transiently-used []byte, you may find my gomempool package useful. It isn't a generic memory pool, it is very specifically for sets of bytes. I had a system many years ago with exactly the problem you mentioned, I was receiving multi-megabyte messages that I really needed to have in a big []byte, but they never lived long, so it was driving the allocator nuts for no good reason because I was receiving a lot per second but there was never more than a handful alive at a time.