golang/tools

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The golang.org/x/tools module provides packages and commands for static analysis of Go programs, including SSA IR, call graphs, and a modular analysis framework. It also hosts gopls, the official Language Server Protocol server that gives editors IDE-like Go support.

Use cases

• automatically format Go files and fix imports with goimports
• build custom static analysis tools for Go code
• add IDE features like autocomplete and go-to-definition to an editor for Go
• generate String methods for Go enum types
• compute call graphs of Go programs
• load and type-check Go packages from source

When to choose

• you are writing Go analysis, refactoring, or linting tooling
• you want to embed Go language intelligence into an editor via LSP
• you need programmatic loading and type-checking of Go source

When to avoid

• you need runtime profiling or dynamic analysis rather than static analysis
• you are working in a language other than Go

Facets

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linter formatter static-site-generator parser developer-tools editor documentation developer-tools programming-languages parsers go cross-platform cli editor-plugin static-analysis lsp gopls goimports ssa code-analysis refactoring language-server command-line

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