Isaac Andrade andradei

Setting up Vim as your Go IDE

Intro

I've been wanting to do a serious project in Go. One thing holding me back has been a my working environment. As a huge PyCharm user, I was hoping the Go IDE plugin for IntelliJ IDEA would fit my needs. However, it never felt quite right. After a previous experiment a few years ago using Vim, I knew how powerful it could be if I put in the time to make it so. Luckily there are plugins for almost anything you need to do with Go or what you would expect form and IDE. While this is no where near comprehensive, it will get you writing code, building and testing with the power you would expect from Vim.

Getting Started

I'm assuming you're coming with a clean slate. For me this was OSX so I used MacVim. There is nothing in my config files that assumes this is the case.

Password-store keeps your passwords (or any other sensitive information) saved in GnuPG encrypted files organized in ~/.password-store. For more information about GPG, consult the GNU Privacy Handbook.

Getting started

To get started, install pass and generate a keypair.

$ brew install pass
$ gpg --gen-key
$ gpg --list-keys

There are three easy to make mistakes in go. I present them here in the way they are often found in the wild, not in the way that is easiest to understand.

All three of these mistakes have been made in Kubernetes code, getting past code review at least once each that I know of.

Loop variables are scoped outside the loop.

What do these lines do? Make predictions and then scroll down.

func print(pi *int) { fmt.Println(*pi) }

	// `Object.make(..)` is a helper/wrapper for `Object.create(..)`. Both create a new
	// object, and optionally link that new object's `[[Prototype]]` chain to another object.
	//
	// But `Object.make(..)` makes sure the new object always has a `__proto__` property
	// (even a null one) and delegation to a `isPrototypeOf(..)` method, both of which are
	// missing from the bare object (aka "Dictionary") created by `Object.create(null)`.
	//
	// `isPrototypeOf()` is put on a extra object that your created object can delegate to,
	// if any only if you create an empty object (by not passing a `linkTo`) that otherwise
	// wouldn't have access to `isPrototypeOf()`.

	function Foo(who) {
	this.me = who;
	}

	Foo.prototype.identify = function() {
	return "I am " + this.me;
	};

	function Bar(who) {
	Foo.call(this,"Bar:" + who);

	package main

	import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"crypto/x509"
	"flag"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	)

	# Assume we are in your home directory
	cd ~/

	# Clone the repo from GitLab using the `--mirror` option
	$ git clone --mirror [email protected]:mario/my-repo.git

	# Change into newly created repo directory
	$ cd ~/my-repo.git

	# Push to GitHub using the `--mirror` option. The `--no-verify` option skips any hooks.

	# content has to be in .config/fish/config.fish
	# if it does not exist, create the file
	setenv SSH_ENV $HOME/.ssh/environment

	function start_agent
	echo "Initializing new SSH agent ..."
	ssh-agent -c \| sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > $SSH_ENV
	echo "succeeded"
	chmod 600 $SSH_ENV
	. $SSH_ENV > /dev/null

	More recent resolution:

	1. cd ~/../../etc (go to etc folder in WSL).
	2. echo "[network]" \| sudo tee wsl.conf (Create wsl.conf file and add the first line).
	3. echo "generateResolvConf = false" \| sudo tee -a wsl.conf (Append wsl.conf the next line).
	4. wsl --terminate Debian (Terminate WSL in Windows cmd, in case is Ubuntu not Debian).
	5. cd ~/../../etc (go to etc folder in WSL).
	6. sudo rm -Rf resolv.conf (Delete the resolv.conf file).
	7. In windows cmd, ps or terminal with the vpn connected do: Get-NetIPInterface or ipconfig /all for get the dns primary and
	secondary.