[oconnor663]

Personally I found it too easy to accidentally forget to check an error, or to shadow a named error return, or to create a nil error that doesn't compare equal to nil. Also to write a method that appears to mutate the receiver but which in fact copies it.

[agnivade]

> I found it too easy to accidentally forget to check an error

Use https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck for that.

Or prefer https://staticcheck.io/ for a larger set of checks.

[apta]

    fmt.Println("foo")

I don't see errcheck complaining there

how about (taken from here: (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ak305l/goodbye...):

    r1, err := fn1()
    r2, err = fn2()
    if err != nil {
      return err
    }

err check doesn't complain either

[oconnor663]

That second example is really surprising. This sort of thing happens all the time in production when lines get moved around. Does anyone know why errcheck misses it?

[agnivade]

Not sure about that. But https://github.com/gordonklaus/ineffassign catches that.

[spdionis]

use an IDE

[rnvhhynr]

What's a good IDE for Go? Something that's snappy and fast, no Java dinosaurs please

[12298765]

I mean GoLand is pretty good, but I do also like IntelliJ, so YMMV if you don't like the JetBrains products. And it isn't free.

VSCode is also really good for Go, I was surprised. There are plugins that massively help with testing, syntax checking, error handling, etc. I think it actually catches more issues than GoLand!

[rnvhhynr]

I've tried VSCode but it seems to require you to install Go... It can't even find the declaration of a variable or the definition of a function without Go, while Sublime can.

[xdfgd0ig0dg]

Visual Studio Code with the official go extension is really great and snappy

[geoka9]

Emacs with go-guru.