goimports VS GoLint

Compare goimports vs GoLint and see what are their differences.

GoLint

[mirror] This is a linter for Go source code. (deprecated) (by golang)
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goimports GoLint
46 6
7,207 3,883
0.7% -
9.9 0.6
1 day ago almost 3 years ago
Go Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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goimports

Posts with mentions or reviews of goimports. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-12.

GoLint

Posts with mentions or reviews of GoLint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-01.
  • 9 Golang Name Conventions Gophers should follow!
    1 project | /r/golang | 4 Jul 2023
    Actually in the early days of Go, devs were stuck to camalCase/PascalCase on variable naming. But VScode Go plugin managed by Microsoft at that time , and they suggested ID over id/ID, XML over xml/ Xml. Because VScode is free, it attached many users and using uppercase for abbreviations/ initialisms became a standard. Andhttps://github.com/golang/lint/issues/124 finalized it. But , still I think it is a wrong decision.
  • VS Code Extension for autocomplete function parameters and best linter?
    1 project | /r/golang | 11 Feb 2023
    As for linting, go vet and [staticcheck](staticcheck.io) are the recommended tools, according to the now deprecated golint repository.
  • I wrote a markdown to html converter
    6 projects | /r/golang | 1 Feb 2023
    golint is deprecated, and it’s no longer required to comment every exported variable/function/struct, etc.
  • go config on mac
    2 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2022
    not found error (go tools not found issue explained below), can also check here
  • A basic polynomial library
    4 projects | /r/golang | 25 Dec 2021
  • What are the REST API reference projects that can be used as a guide in 2021?
    10 projects | /r/golang | 24 Nov 2021
    about Initialisms; Personally I still prefer simple initial conventions (lowerCamelCase, UpperCamelCase, UPPERCASE) Go followed before VSCODE/Microsoft suggested ID or Id (ex. https://github.com/golang/lint/issues/124). Following one pattern everywhere is the best. In Go, a name is exported if it begins with a capital letter. ex URL; if any unexported var/const start with "URL", what do you do?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goimports and GoLint you can also consider the following projects:

gofumpt - A stricter gofmt

staticcheck

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

go-checkstyle - checkstyle for go

goreturns - A gofmt/goimports-like tool for Go programmers that fills in Go return statements with zero values to match the func return types

gosimple

errcheck - errcheck checks that you checked errors.

golines - A golang formatter that fixes long lines

Go Metalinter

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