Today a short share.
Since last year I have been using golang more in my toolkit, often I copy paste but some moments I have to actually write code. For this I use vscode and gopls is the language server.
What is gopls? It stands for Go please. It is a language server and helps linting, autocompleting, adds warnings that this string is not of type []some.thing. It integrates with my favorite IDE: vscode. Fancy stuff. And today was that day that it abandoned me and no longer responded. It did not autocomplete and didn’t give warnings when I used a wrong type. The result is that every iteration I had to run go build to see if the compiler found any issues, the benefit for using a language server is that you get instant feedback. I was slowed down and I cannot have that.
After a quick search I found out that all the comments from the vscode developers on Github shared the same common question. Can you open "Developer: Toggle Developer Tools" and provide the logs?
Quickly I found out that this gives tons of information, tons of errors. I found out that some of the errors were caused by two extension: tree-sitter and the Ansible extension from Microsoft. Both were deprecated and seemed to cause issues with golang code. After disabling these extensions the issue was solved.
Sometimes it is that easy.
ps: I saw that the dates are no longer correctly displayed, have not had time to investigate it. Will fix soon.
Oh, the project I was building in go? Perhaps I can share that soon, it is pretty nice for those that are migrating from DCOS to Kubernetes.