live templates

The GoLand 2020.1 Early Access Program is starting. For this release, we are focusing on ease of use, performance, and reducing time wasted on boilerplate code and redundant actions in the IDE. We have also included nifty upgrades for Go Modules support, and more. You can find a brief description of what’s to come in the roadmap blog post for 2020.1. You can get it 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

Live Templates a.k.a. code snippets can be a very powerful tool in your day-to-day work. Who wouldn’t like to write whole blocks of code by pressing just a few keystrokes? Eliminate some routine, and you’ll have more time to focus on what’s really important. Imagine you are working on web applications. How many times do you write such code patterns as a setting response header to UTF-8, TLS configurations, connecting to databases, and so on? This is exactly the area where code snippets save our time and effort. In GoLand, the predefined Live Templates are available under Preferences | Ed