Author Archives: Florin Pățan

About Florin Pățan

Developer Advocate at JetBrains

New Go 1.13 language features in GoLand 2019.2

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Florin Pățan

Go 1.13 Beta 1 was announced and, with it, some language changes are coming to Go. In this blog post, we’ll see how GoLand 2019.2 supports this new Go version. To learn more about all the new features and changes … Continue reading →

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GoLand 2019.2 EAP 5: Function call support, formatting placeholder highlighting, change signature quick-fix and more

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Florin Pățan

Summer is here, and it’s not only the sun that’s burning hot. Our developers have been busy working on some great new features, and we are eager to share them with you! Download GoLand 2019.2 EAP 5 If you can’t … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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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 | … Continue reading →

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Debugging with 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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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Debugging with GoLand – Improvements in 2019.1

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Florin Pățan

We kicked off this series with how the debugger can be launched and then went on to explain how you can interact with it and configure various breakpoint properties. Today we are continuing on this series with a look at … Continue reading →

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Debugging with GoLand – Essentials

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Florin Pățan

In today’s post, we will continue exploring the debugger functionality in GoLand. If you want to know how to configure the debugger, please see our previous post which contains all the information on how to configure the IDE to work … Continue reading →

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Debugging with GoLand – Getting Started

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Florin Pățan

Debugging is an essential part of any modern application lifecycle. It’s not only useful for finding bugs as programmers often use debuggers to see and understand what happens in a new codebase they have to work with or when learning … Continue reading →

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