revive VS gofumpt

The v1.3.4 of revive, the fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go, is available.

I would suggest checking out something like revive to improve the code. For instance you use an errors.New(fmt.Sprintf(... when you can just use fmt.Errorf(... to simplify it. I am not saying obey everything but there are some good lints included that can even catch bugs (for instance misusing errors.Is or errors.As or general equality).

Linting and static analysis: https://revive.run/

For people using this linter (like me) https://github.com/mgechev/revive

Been using https://github.com/mgechev/revive in all my projects.

The day after, I talked about the Hacktoberfest to Salvador (architect colleague and my technical/career unofficial mentor). He is known for contributing to revive a Golang linter. We decided that I could contribute by solving these 3 issues (2 new rules and add a docker image to the release). Since this moment, I have been coding every available hour I had. It felt so reviving to spend time coding on new projects, rewarding to solve issues for people actually using the tool. Here are all my contributions.

While golint may be deprecated it has been brought back as revive. You can also enable in golangci-lint.

This release adds support for revive, a ~6x faster, stricter, configurable, extensible, and beautiful drop-in replacement for golint.

In the roadmap section[1] the author says it's more of an experiment with a possibility that some of the rules might end up in the original 'gofmt' tool. While I agree that Go having a de facto formatter built in is wonderful, there are some absolutely fantastic additions in 'gofumpt' that I do hope wind up in 'gofmt'

---

[1]: https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt#roadmap

No. If you want more strict formatting, you can use https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt. Apart from using that, there is literally no reason not to use it.

I am the author of go-global-update, the missing command to update globally installed go executables (like gofumpt, gopls, gotop, and other CLI tools you may have installed globally in your system - in your GOBIN directory).

I think that the one tool that might still be useful outside of gopls is goimports. It can be used as a gofmt replacement, that also automatically manages and removes imports. Gopls can integrate staticcheck and gofumpt, but my understanding is that they have to be installed manually. See the settings section for more on that(1).

I use gofumpt but I'm pretty sure it doesn't wrap either (and I don't want it to so we're good)