I second the comments about the various AST and type packages. They are just absurdly unfriendly. I've written a linter / code formatter / auto bug repair tool

I second the comments about the various AST and type packages. They are just absurdly unfriendly. I've written a linter / code formatter / auto bug repair tool internally for my current company and it sucked. Still sucks. Comments doubly so. The examples are few, undocumented, and don't always work with the vendor directory concept. I had to write my own custom importer to get vendor support to be more reliable. I like the concept of shipping with an AST package; it's very forward looking and useful. I too hope the go/analysis package could be the answer. I believe it has not merged but has a prototype version that conflicts with master. Maybe they'll patch it up and get it landed soon. I hope, anyways