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I got very interested in Go recently, but I have question, how do you do your debugging in Go? I am using VSCode, and although VSCode support for Go is the best

by 0xFFC 10y ago

I got very interested in Go recently, but I have question, how do you do your debugging in Go? I am using VSCode, and although VSCode support for Go is the best support between editors, but there is no official support for debugging , it seems.

im3s 10y ago
I don't know about VSCode but I tried Gogland a few days ago and it has integrated debugging support
konart 10y ago
Nothing is better than Gogland or their (JetBrans') plugin for IDEA. You can also try https://github.com/derekparker/delve https://github.com/derekparker/delve
saturn_vk 10y ago
I thought vscode used delve to do go debugging. Also, the vim-go plugin has a lot more useful features than the vscode one
skj 10y ago
I don't want to pretend debuggers aren't useful... But I haven't used a debugger in at least ten years. Production Go for the past few. I debug with good log messages. Of course, not everyone's problems are exactly like mine, so I will believe you if you say it's necessary for your situation.
- rantanplan 10y ago
  Think vast codebases that were created by many programmers that weren't you :D
- baconizer 10y ago
  this reflects my team's experience, initially skilled programmers (from C# mainly) complains almost hourly about lack of IDE features, in particular - Debugging. 14 months in now with 9 major services in production, I hear no more conversation on this, and still no one yet bothered to setup dlv. 'Breakpoints', to our surprises, is not actually indispensable. Also I noticed positive cultural change around, we move faster and team talks about business problem solving more than programming itself, to a point I believe rich functionality IDE over complicated things we do here.
  - sjellis 10y ago
    > Also I noticed positive cultural change around, we move faster and team talks about business problem solving more than programming itself, to a point I believe rich functionality IDE over complicated things we do here. I think that this point about team conversations is incredibly important. Apart from Ruby, Go is the only language that I know where the technical conversations seem to consistently focus on the problem at hand, rather than coding concerns like the finer points of language features. The company that I work for does both Ruby and C#, and the difference in the conversations around the two is very noticeable.
kristianp 10y ago
You can use Delve with Vs Code. There's instructions here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/wiki/Debugging-Go-code-using-VS-Code https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/wiki/Debugging-Go-cod... I've used it for debugging unit tests. Very handy.
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by 0xFFC 10y ago

im3s 10y ago

I don't know about VSCode but I tried Gogland a few days ago and it has integrated debugging support

konart 10y ago

Nothing is better than Gogland or their (JetBrans') plugin for IDEA. You can also try https://github.com/derekparker/delve https://github.com/derekparker/delve

saturn_vk 10y ago

I thought vscode used delve to do go debugging. Also, the vim-go plugin has a lot more useful features than the vscode one

skj 10y ago

I don't want to pretend debuggers aren't useful... But I haven't used a debugger in at least ten years. Production Go for the past few. I debug with good log messages. Of course, not everyone's problems are exactly like mine, so I will believe you if you say it's necessary for your situation.

rantanplan 10y ago
Think vast codebases that were created by many programmers that weren't you :D
baconizer 10y ago
this reflects my team's experience, initially skilled programmers (from C# mainly) complains almost hourly about lack of IDE features, in particular - Debugging. 14 months in now with 9 major services in production, I hear no more conversation on this, and still no one yet bothered to setup dlv. 'Breakpoints', to our surprises, is not actually indispensable. Also I noticed positive cultural change around, we move faster and team talks about business problem solving more than programming itself, to a point I believe rich functionality IDE over complicated things we do here.
- sjellis 10y ago
  > Also I noticed positive cultural change around, we move faster and team talks about business problem solving more than programming itself, to a point I believe rich functionality IDE over complicated things we do here. I think that this point about team conversations is incredibly important. Apart from Ruby, Go is the only language that I know where the technical conversations seem to consistently focus on the problem at hand, rather than coding concerns like the finer points of language features. The company that I work for does both Ruby and C#, and the difference in the conversations around the two is very noticeable.

kristianp 10y ago

You can use Delve with Vs Code. There's instructions here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/wiki/Debugging-Go-code-using-VS-Code https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/wiki/Debugging-Go-cod... I've used it for debugging unit tests. Very handy.

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