Go tooling ♻️ (Go Time #237)

We’re talking about the tools we use every day help us to be productive! This show will be a great introduction for those new to Go tooling, with some discussion around what we think of them after using some of them for many years.

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Featuring:

• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• GolangCI-Lint — “5x faster than gometalinter”
• vim-go
• How can I track tool dependencies for a module?
• go/packages
• Golint — a linter for Go source code
• conprof — Continuous profiling
• func Walk

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!