What’s next: GoLand 2019.2 roadmap

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

Two weeks ago we released GoLand 2019.1 with built-in Memory, CPU, Mutex, and Block profilers, many new debugger features such as Smart Step Into, the new release also included Extract Interface refactoring, Nilness Analyzer, some handy updates for Go Modules, customizable UI themes, and even more goodies that were packed inside on top of that.

If you haven’t checked out these new features yet, head on over to our what’s new page. Or, if you would prefer to watch rather than read, then we have this short 5-minute video for you.

Let me just please take a second to say a big thank you to all the people, who have shared their product experience, feedback, and suggestions with us. Every insight we get from you helps us deliver to you an even better IDE with each release and EAP build!

In fact, we have been so inspired by your feedback, that we have already planned everything out for the upcoming release and want to take this time to share it with you! Let’s go behind the scenes and have a look at what’s coming your way.

Previously, as a token of our gratitude we presented the most active evaluators with a free 1-year subscription for GoLand. However, we have decided to add on top of that a special edition t-shirt. Of course with gophers on the front!

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Profiling Go Applications and Tests

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Florin Pățan

In today’s blog post, we’ll take a look at the new Profiler features of GoLand. We will split this article into two sections:
· General profiler usage in which we’ll cover the common features of the profiler across the various profiler methods.
· Using the different profiling methods in which we’ll cover how to use each individual profiling method and share code samples so you can try this on your own computer.
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Hello, GoLand 2019.1!

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

We’ve just released GoLand 2019.1 that we want to introduce to you!

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GoLand 2019.1 gets built-in Memory, CPU, Block and Mutex profilers, enhances the debugger with advanced features, adds new refactorings, and alerts you about potential errors of using nil in expressions in a variety of ways.

It also lets you download and install any Go SDK right from the IDE, and makes you feel right at home with support for customizable UI themes and the new pre-configured Sublime Text keymap.

That doesn’t even begin to describe everything that GoLand has to offer. Read on for the juicy details, or go to our What’s New page to learn more about what we’ve done for Go Modules, navigation, Intention Actions, Version Control, web development, and databases.

Download GoLand 2019.1

BTW, if you haven’t tried GoLand yet, get your free 30-day trial to evaluate the new features.
Read about the highlights, or check them out in this quick demo:


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Nilness Analyzer Inspection

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Florin Pățan

In today’s post, I want to look at a new code analysis tool that is introduced in the 2019.1 release of GoLand. It’s named Nilness Analyzer, and you can find it under Settings/Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Probable bugs | Nilness analyzer.

This inspection helps us detect cases when we want to access information that could cause a panic, such as calling methods on a nil interface, using methods or members of nil structures, accessing nil slices, and so on.

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GoLand 2019.1 Release Candidate is out!

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

GoLand 2019.1 Release Candidate is out, it means that we’re now in sight of the finish line, so if no critical issues are found, the release will go public.

Download GoLand 2019.1 RC

Get this RC build via our Toolbox App, from the website, as a snap package (for Linux), or directly from GoLand – just select Automatically check updates for Early Access Program in Preferences / Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Updates.

Please note that to use GoLand 2019.1 RC, you need to have an active subscription or start a 30-day evaluation period. In addition, we’ve stopped providing nightly builds until the next Early Access Program opens (for 2019.2).

This RC build brings useful tiny changes and bug-fixes, mostly for the debugger:

GO-7021 — The UI doesn’t freeze on auto-import anymore.

GO-6662, GO-6345 — The Variables tab in the debugger now displays the types contained in an interface and shows the address for the pointers inside a type.

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GO-6989 — Unreadable variables are hidden in the debugger now.

GO-7062 — Navigation to struct fields in the debugger is working correctly.

GO-6509 — Setting the value for struct fields, pointers, and interface values in the debugger works as expected.

We love to hear from you! Do share your feedback with us: here in the comments, on Twitter, or our bug tracker.

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GoLand 2019.1 Goes Beta

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

The upcoming GoLand 2019.1 is now in Beta!

For three months now, our team has worked hard to turn our roadmap into reality, to meet your expectations, and hopefully to feel that pleasant fatigue that you get after you’ve done even more than planned.

After this Beta milestone, we will mostly focus on eliminating bugs and polishing UI elements and everything around until the major release.

Get this Beta build via our Toolbox App, from the website, as a snap package (for Linux), or directly from GoLand – just select Automatically check updates for Early Access Program in Preferences / Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Updates.

Download GoLand 2019.1 BETA

Before I give you the headliners of this release, let me just note that the Beta is quite stable in comparison to our other EAP builds, though some clumsy things may still pop up here and there.

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Debugging in GoLand – Windows minidumps

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Florin Pățan

A while back we talked about debugging the core dumps produced on Linux systems.
Since then, the IDE has had an update that allows it to debug the equivalent memory dumps produced on Windows systems, called minidumps. As with core dumps, minidumps can be analyzed on any operating system, not just on Windows. Please note that you will need GoLand 2019.1 or higher to use this feature.

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GoLand 2019.1 EAP 8: Built-in Heap, Mutex and Block Profilers

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Ekaterina Zharova

GoLand 2019.1 EAP 8 is here!

Get this new EAP build via our Toolbox App, from the website, as a snap package (for Linux), or directly from GoLand – just select Automatically check updates for Early Access Program in Preferences / Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | Updates.

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Built-in Heap, Mutex, and Block Profilers

Profiling is the best way – and sometimes the only way – to know the real performance of your application.

That’s why we are happy to let you know that GoLand has expanded its tooling support by integrating with Memory, Mutex, and Blocking profilers in addition to the CPU profiler.

You can run profilers right from the IDE, and then review the analysis results in a dedicated tool window (View | Tool Windows | Performance Profiler).

To run the profiler, use the new Run with Profiler button and choose the required configuration in the navigation toolbar. Alternatively, select any of new actions in the run menu, which appears when you click on the run icon in the left gutter.

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To get a better understanding of the possible performance issues in your code, sort the results by metrics. Each particular profiler has different metrics appropriate for its type via the Metric’s popup menu.

The Memory Profiler lets you sort and explore the results by Allocated objects, Allocated space, In-use objects, and In-use space. The Blocking Profiler and Mutex Profiler provide two options for metrics: Contentions and Delay.

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Refactorings in GoLand – Extract Interface

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Florin Pățan

In today’s article, we will talk about the Extract Interface refactoring, a new refactoring available since GoLand 2019.1.

This refactoring allows us to take a type and extract all the method definitions that we need, then create a new interface from them. This operation is particularly useful when going from a single implementation to using multiple implementations, such as in the example below.

To invoke this, you can use the Refactor This shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T on Windows/Linux or ^T on macOS.

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The Extract Interface dialog allows us to select any method from the existing type and control where will the interface be extracted. As such, you can create the interface in the current file/package, by default, or in a new file/package or existing ones but different than the current ones. You can also control if the methods should be exported or not, in case you do not want for external packages to be able to implement the interface.

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That’s it for today. We learned how to use a new and powerful refactoring feature that will help us as the code base grows. Please let us know your feedback in the comments section below, on Twitter, or on our issue tracker.

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Debugging with GoLand – Advanced Debugging features

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Florin Pățan

Today we start the last article in the series of debugging with GoLand. Previously we addressed points such as configuring the debugger and the debugging session, how to control the debugger execution flow and configure breakpoints, and what are some of the latest improvements in the upcoming 2019.1 version.

In today’s article, we will talk about two advanced debugging features of GoLand: Core Dump debugging and using Mozilla rr, a reversible debugger.

Debugging core dumps

Core dumps are memory snapshots of running applications taken at a certain point in time. They can help us visualize all the goroutines present, with all the values for the variables, as well as the current execution point for each active goroutine.

Right now, GoLand supports only Core Dumps taken on Linux systems, but it can read and analyze them on any operating system.

There are two ways to obtain a core dump. If we want to see the in-memory values as the process terminates because of a crash, we need to set the ulimit to be reasonably high, e.g., sudo ulimit -c unlimited, and have the following environment variable configured GOTRACEBACK=crash.  This will enable Go applications to crash with a stacktrace printed and with a core dump file written.

To be able to get core dumps from a running process without having to crash it, we need to have gdb installed on the system and run these commands:

Note that this value will be reset on system restart and you’ll need to configure it again.

To generate and use the core dump, we need to configure the IDE to save the binary in a known location, such as our project root directory.

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