What’s Next: GoLand 2020.1 Roadmap

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

A month ago we released GoLand 2019.3. For this version, we mostly focused on giving you the most enjoyable IDE experience possible. We hope our efforts have paid off! GoLand 2019.3 consumes less CPU and performs faster than any previous versions, has more accurate code inspections, and improves its code editing features. On top of that, we’ve added new quick-fixes, enhanced the existing refactorings, and made it possible to debug your applications remotely using Mozilla rr, enable a Global File Watcher for every new project, and work with MongoDB!

If you haven’t checked out these new features yet, visit our What’s New page for detailed descriptions, GIFs, and screenshots.

Traditionally, we would like to say a big THANK YOU to the people who help us make GoLand better by sharing their product experience, feedback, and suggestions with us. The most active evaluators are getting a free 1-year subscription for GoLand and a special edition of our branded T-shirt!

Here are these wonderful folks:

Dmitry Matrenichev (YouTrack username: lepage)

Roland Illig (YouTrack username: roland.illig)

GoLand 2020.1 roadmap

Even faster

Like the IntelliJ Platform on which GoLand is built, our IDE will keep improving startup performance and indexing speed. Here’s a short summary of things to come:

We are planning to unlock more IDE actions while your project is still indexing so that you can perform them immediately, without having for the indexing to finish.
The IDE will notify you about indexing deviations, for example when file indexing is taking too long, files are reindexed too frequently, or index rebuilds are caused by exceptions.

For more details, please read this blog post by the IntelliJ Platform team.
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GoLand 2019.3 Turns Beta!

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

Our train of Early Access Program builds is quickly approaching its final destination. GoLand 2019.3 has reached the Beta milestone, so starting today we are focusing on polishing things up and getting the IDE ready for the release. Note that while the Beta is quite stable compared to our Early Access Program builds, it may still contain some kinks and glitches.

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Your feedback is vital for us, so if you come across any bugs or peculiar behavior, please tell us using our issue tracker or Twitter, or ping us right here in the comments.

Download GoLand 2019.3 Beta

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Get GoLand, Support Women Who Go and GoBridge, and Celebrate Go’s Birthday!

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

This weekend, on the 10th of November, the Go language turns 10 years old. Congratulations to all the gophers worldwide!

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As our gift to the Go community, we have decided to launch a fundraising campaign to support the Women Who Go and GoBridge non-profit organizations. These organizations hold a special place for us, they are both dedicated to empowering underrepresented groups in tech with the chance to learn and teach with Go and help increase diversity in the Go community.

This fundraising campaign is aiming to allow thousands of Women Who Go and GoBridge volunteers across the world to teach workshops, run meetups, and provide resources to women and other underrepresented groups with limited access to technology and tech skills.

During the two-week campaign, which will run until the 22nd of November, the money generated from every new GoLand individual license sold with a 30% discount code, will go to the Women Who Go and GoBridge non-profit organizations.

How to get involved

1. When buying a new annual GoLand subscription in our e-store, on the checkout page, сlick “Have a discount code?”.

2. Enter the following 30% discount promo code:

IDONATEWWGANDGOBRIDGE

Alternatively, just click this shortcut link to go to the e-store with the code automatically applied.

3. Fill in the other required fields on the page and click the “Place order” button.

All proceeds from this promotion will go to Women Who Go and GoBridge – not just the profits, but the entire sales amount. The campaign will help these non-profit organizations continue to support their communities and their different outreach and diversity programs.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Women Who Go at hello@womenwhogo.org, GoBridge at support@golangbridge.org, or JetBrains at sales@jetbrains.com.

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Goland 2019.3 EAP 6 is Out with Highlighting in go.mod Files, and Just a Pinch of Bug-Fixes

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

Get this EAP build via the Toolbox App, download from the website, or use a snap package (for Ubuntu). You can also get it right in GoLand, select Automatically check updates for Early Access Program in Preferences / Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Updates.

Download GoLand 2019.3 EAP 6

Remember that you can also use nightly builds based on the latest development code almost daily, perfect for when you don’t want to wait for the official EAP build announcements. Note they are only available via the Toolbox App.

Syntax highlighting in go.mod files

Great news, we are continuing to extend our support for Go Modules projects. GoLand 2019.3 will provide syntax highlighting for go.mod files so you can read them effortlessly. But that’s not all! Stay tuned, there is more coming soon.

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Noticeable bug-fixes:

GO-8134 — We’ve improved the parser slightly, now it works better with trailing commas.
GO-7879 — GoLand now provides a more accurate bound check for array types.
GO-8280 — The IDE now correctly deletes comments when using the Delete type quick-fix.
GO-8267 — Comments inside imports don’t break Find Usages anymore.

We love hearing from you! Your feedback is invaluable and often the source of excellent ideas for improvement. Please tell us what you think by dropping us a request in our bug tracker or by tweeting us @GoLandIDE. Thank you!

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Goland 2019.3 EAP 5 is Here with Faster Startup, Improvements for File Watcher, and More

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

Get this EAP build via the Toolbox App, download from the website, or use a snap package (for Ubuntu). Or, right in GoLand, select Automatically check updates for Early Access Program in Preferences / Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Updates.

Download GoLand 2019.3 EAP 5

Remember that you can also use nightly builds based on the latest development code almost every day, if you don’t want to wait for the official announcements for EAP builds. Note they are only available via the Toolbox App.

Faster startup

Since GoLand 2019.2 we’ve been continuously working on reducing startup times. This release is no exception.

We are happy to announce that the first three phases, bootstrap, app initialization preparation, and app initialization, have been optimized significantly.

For bootstrap and app initialization preparation we’ve optimized routine tasks such as font loading on macOS, or parallelized them. Now such activities don’t depend on each other and only block the subsequent steps when they must.

Previously the app initialization phase sequentially waited when loading file indices, virtual file system, code styles, and so on. Now, GoLand provides service preloading with several policies (fully async or partially async).

We will keep working to reduce startup times even further, so you can expect even faster startup in the upcoming releases.

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Enable global file watchers for all new projects

In GoLand 2018.2, we’ve added an option to share a file watcher configuration among different projects using the Project and Global options – it’s called a Global File Watcher. However, you would have still needed to enable this watcher in each new project. Now, it’s possible to enable this watcher by default in every new project you create or open.

In the menu File, select Other Settings | Settings for new projects, then go to Tools | File Watchers, add a new global watcher, and then select the checkbox next to it to enable it in all new projects.

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Configure quote style for CSS

You can now choose whether double or single quotes should be used in CSS (as well as SCSS and Less files). The new option Quote Marks is available in Settings/Preferences | Editor | Code Style | Style Sheets | CSS – Other.

Select Enforce on Reformat if you want to apply the selected quote style not only when using code completion to add new code, but also when reformatting the code.

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GoLand 2019.3 EAP 4 is Out with MongoDB Support and Importing & Handling Known Package Aliases

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

Download GoLand 2019.3 EAP 4

Remember that you can also use nightly builds based on the latest development code almost every day, if you don’t want to wait for the official announcements of EAP builds. Note they are available via the Toolbox App only.

MongoDB

GoLand 2019.3 EAP 4 has basic support for MongoDB!

Now you can view collections and fields in the database explorer.

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Open any collection or observe the query result. It’s also possible to sort by columns or filter the values.

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Run queries and get the results. Select a statement and run it by pressing Ctrl/Cmd+Enter or by using the Play button on the toolbar.

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Your feedback is vital to us! Please share your thoughts in the comments below or in our bug tracker, or tweet us @GoLandIDE.

Enhanced handling of package aliases

GoLand now suggests importing packages based on their used aliases via Alt+Enter in any file in your project.

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Improved code folding for composite literals

GoLand provides code folding for composite literals. Use the code folding toggles to fold or expand the code fragment, or press Ctrl+NumPad –/Ctrl+NumPad Plus on Windows or ⌘+NumPad –/⌘+NumPad Plus on macOS. To configure the default code folding behavior, go to Settings/Preferences | Editor | General | Code Folding.

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Notable bug-fixes:

— GO-8186 — the debugger works well with projects using Go 1.10.

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GoLand 2019.2.3 is Out!

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

Please welcome GoLand 2019.2.3 with a bunch of bug-fixes!

Download GoLand 2019.2.3

Update to it via the Toolbox App, go to 2019.2.2 and click Help | Check for Updates, or download a copy from our website.

GO-7213, GO-7830, GO-6689 — We’ve fixed several issues with incorrect indents, and now GoLand works as expected in blocks inside switch cases, after an if with a multiline condition, and after an if/else.

GO-8074, GO-8051 — Evaluate and Log in the debugger prints the value in the debug console as expected, and the debugger itself works correctly with string values containing non-ASCII symbols.

GO-6545 — Method-like code completion doesn’t reformat a raw string after being applied.

JBR 11 (default) was updated to 11.0.4+10-b304.69 with the following fixes included:

JBR-1702 — JetBrains Runtime has been rebased on top of OpenJDK 11.0.4.

JBR-1649 — Fixed the issue with an empty bar overlapping the navigation bar.

JBR-1721 — Fixed the issue that affected the opening of projects on macOS Catalina.

JBR-1696 — Fixed the issue where the focus was being lost after displaying the Add File to Git dialog.

JBR-1778 — Fixed the incorrect font formatting (always italics) in the editor.

JBR 8 was updated to 1.8.0_212-release-1586-b14 and these issues were fixed:

JBR-1624, JBR-1683 — Fixed broken Fira Code font rendering.

We always appreciate your feedback! Please tell us what you think by dropping us a request in our bug tracker or by tweeting us @GoLandIDE. Thank you!

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