Gogland Blog

Hooray! Fresh Gogland EAP 8 is here, packed with improvements, bug fixes, and things that are just really cool. Get it from our website, via patches, or from Toolbox App.

Postfix Completion, which you may be familiar with from Java and JavaScript support in IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm, is now available for Go:

The list of supported templates is available in Settings | Editor | General | Postfix Completion:

If you need a suggestion that’s not included here, please add your suggestion it to GO-3796.

There’s also a new inspection that reports redundant boolean expressions and offers a quick-fix that simplifies them:

The new Context Info action (available from View in the main menu or via Alt+Q for Windows/Linux or Ctrl+Shift+Q for macOS) shows the current method or class declaration when it is not visible:

The built-in spell-checker now reports typos in string literals and helps to fix them:

The debugger has also been improved in a number of ways, including bug fixes. Delve has been upgraded to 1.0.0-rc.1, which among other improvements adds support for LLDB on macOS.

Improvements in the editor include better formatting, inspections, completion, performance, and more.

You may also find these platform improvements useful:

• Better font rendering on Linux
• Find in Path usability
• Manual columns reordering in Git Log

The built-in JRE has been updated. For the complete list of changes there, see the release notes.

Last but not least, if you’re using Gogland, you can now also switch to the nightly builds of the Go plugin. All it takes is registering “https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugins/nightly/9568” as a Repository URL in Settings | Plugins | Browse repositories | Manage repositories.

This pretty much sums up all the goodies in this EAP. Please give it a try and share your feedback with us. Both bug reports and feature requests are welcome in our issue tracker.

Develop with Pleasure!

Following IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1 released earlier today, a fresh EAP build for Gogland EAP 7 becomes available, bringing you more bugfixes and new features.

First of all, Debugger improvements.

Run to cursor action that resumes code execution and stops at a given line is now available both via shortcut and from the menu.

Breakpoints now support Conditional expressions that let you define conditions under which they will be hit:

Data representation inside Variables, Watches, Evaluate Expression, Inspect and inline information is improved: it displays nested objects, supports arrays, etc.

Also, the update brings several new intention actions, that let you add an alias for an import statement and replaces all usages accordingly:

And to invoke go generate for a generated comment at the caret:

The “err” live template has been improved and now it is aware of the error variables within the scope:

In Settings | Editor | General | Code Folding the IDE offers two new options (off by default): One line returns and One line panics. These options fold single-line if statements with return and panic statements inside to a more compact syntax:

We’ve merged changes from IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1 that include all the platform improvements and new features, the most notable of which is the reworked Find in Path dialog, that now provides instant preview of the sought text and lets you jump to any result with Enter:

Another area of the platform improvements is JavaScript support, and it includes dozens of changes:

And, of course, many small, but important Go improvements:

• Faster Code completion
• Rename and Find usages for packages, imports and qualifiers
• Validation of canonical import paths
• File Rename now renames the corresponding test file as well
• Highlighting and filtering generated files in Find usages/Refactorings according to the proposal
• Bugfixes in the Formatter, Inspections, Refactorings and Completion

Last, but not least, we’re happy to announce the availability of the Go plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other paid IDEs which provides the functionality equal to Gogland.  Read the FAQ to see how it differs from the third-party plugin.

Note that there’s no patch update available due to the migration to IntelliJ Platform 2017.1.

That’s it for today. Feel free to give the new EAP build a try right away and share your feedback with us through the comments as well as the issue tracker.

The Drive to Develop

Great news, everyone! Please welcome a freshly-baked EAP build, with more improvements and bugfixes. The new build can be downloaded from our website, without any forms and emails.

Major improvements include:

• C syntax highlighting in injected fragments

• Formatting with gofmt or goimports when saving files
• Default location for new projects is now correct
• Improved Implement interface action: it doesn’t add already existing methods; suggests only interfaces
• Inspection for private fields with tags
• Create function quick fix is available when functional types are expected
• Adjusting import paths when renaming directories

For more details, see to the release notes.

Develop with Pleasure!

Holidays are finally over, and now it’s time to get back to work so we’ve prepared a fresh Gogland EAP build for you to download and try.

In addition to bugfixes, the new build features improved code completion features with Parameter Name Completion:

Gogland EAP participants can get this build via Check for Updates command right from the IDE. Everyone else have to sign up for the EAP, and then receive the download links via email.

If you haven’t heard of Gogland before, check out its official website and FAQ.

Develop with Pleasure!