What is wrong with VSCode IntelliSense for GO?

• LiteIDE

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I mostly use VS Code, too (or rather VSCodium), but also recommend you try LiteIDE as it's exceptionally fast.

• vscodium

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  binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  

I mostly use VS Code, too (or rather VSCodium), but also recommend you try LiteIDE as it's exceptionally fast.

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• vscode-go

  36 3,733 9.0 TypeScript

  Go extension for Visual Studio Code (by golang)

  

I see many people here complaining about gopls having bugs, but would any of you be willing to go through the process of collecting some traces / logs and providing feedback to the development team? There are detailed instructions here: https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md Once you realise that there's no dedicated QA team and only a small minority of people are willing to report detailed diagnostics and reproduction steps, you'll understand why your experience isn't better. To quote Mike Milinkovich: "Open source is free as in free puppies. You need to take care of it."

• go

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  The Go programming language

  

It's true that the parser is responsible for a lot of weakness in gopls; since it's built on the Go parser, it is incapable of dealing with bad inputs. So the moment you insert a wrong parenthesis or something, causing the parsing to fail, Gopls will stop offering completions. The Go parser was not designed for a language server, and it shows. Here is a bug I reported (still open) that demonstrates how the analyzer breaks down in the presence of parse errors. But a big part of a smooth IDE experience is being able to still get good completions even if the syntax tree isn't completely sane.

• gocode

  1 397 10.0 Go

  Discontinued An autocompletion daemon for the Go programming language (by stamblerre)

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