Mastering Golang Debugging in Emacs

1. ginkgo

   1 20 8,467 8.7 Go

   A Modern Testing Framework for Go

   Debug both standard applications and Ginkgo tests (this is what I'm using at the moment 🤷)

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. heureka

   2 2 4 9.4 Go

   Security and compliance management

   

   After starting working on more complex projects (like this one: https://github.com/cloudoperators/heureka) I had to force myself to have a deeper look at delve (the Golang debugger) and see what Emacs offers for interacting with it. While the Go ecosystem offers excellent debugging tools, integrating them into a comfortable development workflow can be challenging.

4. delve

   3 57 23,275 9.0 Go

   Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language.

   

   In this post I'll elaborate the powerful combination of Emacs, Delve, and dape. Together, these tools create a debugging experience that mimics (and often surpasses) traditional IDEs, while preserving the flexibility and extensibility that Emacs is famous for.

5. minimal-emacs.d

   4 2 274 9.7 Emacs Lisp

   minimal-emacs.d - Better Vanilla Emacs Defaults and Optimized Startup

   In this post I assume you already have some Emacs experience and now how to configure packages and write small Elisp snippets. I personally use straight.el as a package manager, minimal-emacs.d as a minimal vanilla Emacs configuration (along with my own custommizations), dape as the debug adapter client and eglot as my LSP client.

6. dape

   5 6 555 9.7 Emacs Lisp

   Debug Adapter Protocol for Emacs

   

   In this post I assume you already have some Emacs experience and now how to configure packages and write small Elisp snippets. I personally use straight.el as a package manager, minimal-emacs.d as a minimal vanilla Emacs configuration (along with my own custommizations), dape as the debug adapter client and eglot as my LSP client.

7. straight.el

   6 71 2,771 4.4 Emacs Lisp

   🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.

   

   In this post I assume you already have some Emacs experience and now how to configure packages and write small Elisp snippets. I personally use straight.el as a package manager, minimal-emacs.d as a minimal vanilla Emacs configuration (along with my own custommizations), dape as the debug adapter client and eglot as my LSP client.

8. dotfiles

   7 2 10 0.0 Emacs Lisp

   Dotfiles management using chezmoi (by dorneanu)

   

   In this post I assume you already have some Emacs experience and now how to configure packages and write small Elisp snippets. I personally use straight.el as a package manager, minimal-emacs.d as a minimal vanilla Emacs configuration (along with my own custommizations), dape as the debug adapter client and eglot as my LSP client.

9. eglot

   8 68 2,310 2.2 Emacs Lisp

   A client for Language Server Protocol servers

   In this post I assume you already have some Emacs experience and now how to configure packages and write small Elisp snippets. I personally use straight.el as a package manager, minimal-emacs.d as a minimal vanilla Emacs configuration (along with my own custommizations), dape as the debug adapter client and eglot as my LSP client.

10. goimports

    9 48 7,460 9.8 Go

    [mirror] Go Tools (by golang)

    

    For Emacs 29+ users, eglot is built-in. Check out configuring eglot for gopls and some more advanced gopls settings. We'll first add dape:

11. dap-mode

    10 23 1,323 6.2 Emacs Lisp

    Emacs :heart: Debug Adapter Protocol

    

    There is no particular reason why I use dape instead of dap. When I was still using MinEmacs it was part of it and I just got used to it. As the documentation states:

12. minemacs

    11 5 167 9.9 Emacs Lisp

    MinEmacs: an Emacs configuration framework for daily use

    There is no particular reason why I use dape instead of dap. When I was still using MinEmacs it was part of it and I just got used to it. As the documentation states:

13. Go for Visual Studio Code

    12 4 5,981 7.6 TypeScript

    You have different fields/properties which according to this page you can tweak in your debugging configuration:

14. ginkgo-mode

    13 1 5 - Emacs Lisp

    A minor mode for the Ginkgo testing framework.

    Being able to debug tests in Golang is crucial. For running ginkgo tests I use ginkgo-mode which has several features:

15. vscode-go

    14 40 3,943 8.9 TypeScript

    Go extension for Visual Studio Code (by golang)

    

    vscode-go/docs/debugging.md at master · golang/vscode-go

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