vscode-go
Go extension for Visual Studio Code (by golang)
Go for Visual Studio Code
By Microsoft
| vscode-go | Go for Visual Studio Code | |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | 4 | |
| 4,109 | 5,981 | |
| 0.9% | - | |
| 8.9 | 7.6 | |
| 11 days ago | about 5 years ago | |
| TypeScript | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
vscode-go
Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-go.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-03.
- Syntactic Support for Error Handling
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VSCode-go: Increase the Go telemetry prompt rate to 200%
heh, comments are where business rules go to die https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/blob/v0.43.4/extension/s... A mere 5 lines away from the line it was trying to tie itself to, they really should have put the TODO on the source of the change, not the effect of the change
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Mastering Golang Debugging in Emacs
vscode-go/docs/debugging.md at master · golang/vscode-go
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Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
What if one language server adds a function to use your code for AI training?
Vscode installs tons of other crap beside the language server itself. And the language server alone has a quite long list of dependencies
https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/blob/master/extension/go...
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Error handling in Go web apps shouldn't be so awkward
Goland collapses this to a single line, and vscode is looking into it too.
https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/issues/2311
It papers over the issue, but helps some.
- The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer
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How to disable the automatic syntax checking in the Go extension in VS Code?
A quick search of the settings turns up go.languageServerExperimentalFeatures, which links to https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/issues/50
- TIL Goland can run specific cases on table driven tests
- VSCode Does not support Refactoring
- What's the most commonly used IDE for golang development ?
Go for Visual Studio Code
Posts with mentions or reviews of Go for Visual Studio Code.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-29.
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Mastering Golang Debugging in Emacs
You have different fields/properties which according to this page you can tweak in your debugging configuration:
- Testing flow for Go in VS Code?
- I finally figured out how to run Go on WSL2/windows and debug in vscode.
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How do I disable the GoLang's auto-formatting on file save in VSCode?
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I looked at this and even looked at what Go themselves had to say on their VSCode extension page, but neither of these are helping.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vscode-go and Go for Visual Studio Code you can also consider the following projects:
goimports-reviser - Right imports sorting & code formatting tool (goimports alternative)
Goclipse
go-plus - An Enhanced Go Experience For The Atom Editor
Local Golang playground - GNU/Emacs mode that setup local Go playground for code snippets like play.golang.org or even better :)
GNU/Emacs go-mode - Emacs mode for the Go programming language