VSCode setup for Go developers

According to lot of online polls, Visual Studio Code is the most popular IDE among Go developers. You can start Go development immediately after installing Go extension for VSCode, but some tuning may make your life easier. First of all, you may want to format the source code and reorganize imports automatically on each file save or code paste. In order to do so, put the following JSON snippet in your settings....

2021-03-16 · 2 min · Boban Acimovic

Changes in Go implementation of the new protobuf and gRPC

If you don’t know yet, there were major changes by Google in protobuf and gRPC implementation for Go. New version should be better in all means so you should switch as soon as possible, if you are already using these technologies. In this article I am going to focus on Linux variant, but the upgrade procedure should be quite similar on OSX or Windows. In order to use protobuf compiler or generator, if you wish, you had to install protoc compiler....

2020-11-15 · 2 min · Boban Acimovic