There are a couple implementations of this (e.g. staticcheck[1] is probably the biggest and most widely used), but none are really pluggable or easy to interact

There are a couple implementations of this (e.g. staticcheck[1] is probably the biggest and most widely used), but none are really pluggable or easy to interact with. And nearly anything even slightly sophisticated needs to interact with the type checker, which has like one example repo[2] and no other documentation anywhere. There's a semi-recent experiment to try to make a pluggable lint system[3], but I'm not sure what the current status is. For my workplace, tbh I plan on making something semi-hacky just to get us off the ground + use real go plugins so we actually have some minor extensibility without reams of boilerplate. I've built several tiny things that just use the AST (which is not bad at all, and quite fast - several thousand source files take about 250ms), and they've been worth the effort like 100x over, but it's hard / impossible to do anything better without the type checker + significant amounts of work. [1]: very highly recommended, it has far more / better checks than others I've seen, but is also quite slow and hard to extend: https://staticcheck.io/ https://staticcheck.io/ [2]: it's honestly quite a good repo, but there needs to be more. it's a fairly unfriendly API and there are few helper libs as far as I've seen: https://golang.org/s/types-tutorial https://golang.org/s/types-tutorial [3]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-azPLXaLgTCKeKDNg0HVMq2ovMlD-e7n1ZHzZVzOlJk/edit#heading=h.yrkxrtoon8kq https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-azPLXaLgTCKeKDNg0HVMq2o...