GoLand 2019.3

Performance

• Major performance improvements reducing the startup times when the IDE prepares everything under the hood, displays the welcome screen, and indexes a project.

Go Modules improvements

• GoLand 2019.3 provides syntax highlighting and navigation for go.mod files. Also, in the Project View, the Go Modules will be displayed with their full import path instead of just the last segment of it. The version of each Go Module will also be shown in a more muted font color than the import path, to help you easily distinguish between them.

Debugger updates

• Call Method of an Embedded Field - Evaluate Expression in the debugger now lets you call a method of an embedded field directly.
• Remote debugging with Mozilla rr - Many production services written in Go run on Linux and Mozilla rr can help investigate bugs that are difficult to reproduce. Mozilla rr debugging is supported starting from GoLand 2018.3, but it used to work only on developer machines running Linux. Now, it is possible to start a debug server on a Linux machine and to debug the trace remotely from macOS and Windows.

New quick-fixes

• Handling unused parameters - For an unused parameter, GoLand now highlights its name and type if both can be removed, or only the name if the type is used for implementing a method specification. In the latter case, the IDE provides two quick-fixes for you to choose from: Delete parameter names or Rename to_. The same behavior is provided for functions that are used as a function type. Also, now it’s possible to remove all the unused parameters in one go. Press Alt+Enter and use the Delete all unused parameters quick-fix.
• Create missing method or function - GoLand provides a quick-fix to create a missing function or method when it's used in a function type. Just press Alt+Enter and choose Create method/function.
• Enhanced handling of package aliases - GoLand now suggests importing packages based on their used aliases via Alt+Enter in any file in your project.

Refactorings

• Change Signature - Change Signature now always shows the type of parameters in the Parameters and Result parameters tabs. Tick the new Reuse types checkbox to collapse consequence types in the Signature Preview and the result. In addition, you will find two new intention actions, Reuse signature types which merges parameter definitions in a single declaration, and Expand signature types which adds types to each parameter via Alt+Enter.
• Extract Variable & Rename - Extract Variable and Rename are now better at suggesting names. For example, err is suggested for expressions of type error, ctx is suggested for context.Context, and so on.

Improved behavior of Code Inspections

• GoLand’s code inspections are more focused now. This versions reduces the highlighting range of the detected issues in the code editor, to help show the most relevant quick-fixes and intention actions for a particular piece of code when you invoke the context menu via Alt+Enter.

Code Editing

• Improved rune literal lexer - Improved the rune literal lexer in several ways:
  • GoLand provides a clearer and more concise error message explaining why the expression is incorrect.
  • GoLand doesn’t highlight a valid rune literal as an error after editing.
  • Parsing of invalid rune literals is more stable.
• Highlighting for reassignments - Go allows using existing variables on the left-hand side of short var declarations. Thus, two constructs that look the same can have different meanings. To make this easier to spot, this release adds syntax highlighting for such reassignments.
• Code folding for composite literals - GoLand 2019.3 provides code folding for composite literals. Use the code folding toggles to fold or expand the code fragment, or press Ctrl+NumPad Minus/Ctrl+NumPad Plus on Windows or ⌘+NumPad Minus/⌘+NumPad Plus on macOS. To configure the default code folding behavior, go to Settings/Preferences | Editor | General | Code Folding.

Live templates enhanced

• The live templates for and forr now suggest relevant variable names. For example, names like i and index are suggested for an index; s, string, and line are suggested for a value. The live template meth now provides code suggestions for receiver names.

Navigation

• Search only in a selected area - Search only in a selected area when using Find (⌘+F on macOS and Ctrl+F on Windows/Linux). Simply select the piece of code you need in the editor and invoke Find – the IDE will then perform the search only in the selected area. To easily switch to searching within the whole fil.
• Using ‘Find in Path’ with a file mask option - Now, when you search in the Find in Path dialog using a file mask, GoLand shows the file extensions in the search results accordingly. This makes it easier for you to distinguish between files with the same name but with different file extensions.

Enable Global File Watcher for all new projects

• Now, it’s possible to enable this watcher by default in all new projects you create or open.

Tutorials

• Often there’s not enough time to read the What’s New pages, release notes, and blog posts about the product you use, while you need to finish your project and meet the deadline. That’s why this release adds Tutorials for you to learn about GoLand features when you are ready. You can find Tutorials on the welcome screen, above your project list. When you upgrade the IDE to a new version, there will be a lesson covering the features from the new release. Alternatively, you can access Tutorials via a corresponding tool window from any project.

More changes

• Hierarchy tool window - There is a new option to analyze the callees’ method hierarchy in the Hierarchy tool window. This release adds two dedicated buttons that let you switch between the callers and callees of the selected method. Also, now you can sort the elements within a tree alphabetically, by clicking a special button in the menu. To see the Hierarchy tool window in the Tool Windows list, you need to build a hierarchy first and then go to Navigate | Call Hierarchy or Navigate | Type Hierarchy.
• Switch theme and keymap plugins on the fly - In GoLand 2019.3, you can install and uninstall any theme plugins and keymap plugins without restarting the IDE.
• A custom shortcut for returning the focus to the editor - Set your custom shortcut for the action that takes the focus back to the editor, instead of using ESC. Find the Focus Editor action in references/Settings | Keymap, right-click it, and select Add Keyboard Shortcut from the drop-down.
• More visible scrollbars - Added an option to make the scrollbars more visible. To do this, select the Use contrast scrollbars checkbox in Preferences/Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance.

Version control improvements

• Reworked Clone dialog - The Clone dialog is located under VCS | Get from Version control. Now you can log in from this dialog, or, if you’re already logged in, the IDE will instantly preview the lists of all repositories grouped by accounts or organizations.
• ‘Show Details’ opens a window with conflict changes
• More insight into merge conflicts - Now it is easier to investigate a conflict during a merge, rebase, or cherry-pick operation. Simply click the Show Details link to get the list of commits that led to the resulting code state, and get more information about the source of the changes displayed in the Merge dialog.

Databases updates

• MongoDB support - GoLand 2019.3 provides basic support for MongoDB. Now you can:
• View collections and fields in the database explorer.
• Open any collection or observe the query result. It’s also possible to sort by columns or filter the values.
• Run queries and get the results. Select a statement and run it by pressing Ctrl/⌘+Enter or by using the Play button on the toolbar.
• Search for connection error - It’s now easier to explore connection errors. When a connection fails, you can just click the dedicated button in the IDE to move to the search results for your error using the Google search engine.

Web development

• Completion for CSS libraries on CDN - If you’re using Bootstrap or another CSS library and have it linked from a CDN in your HTML file, you can now get completion for the class names from that library, without adding its sources to the project.
• Name suggestions for new symbols - When adding new variable and parameter names in JavaScript or TypeScript, you’ll now get name suggestions based on the names of classes, interfaces, and type aliases defined in the project, standard libraries, and dependencies you’re using. For new variables, functions, classes, and interfaces, you’ll also get suggestions for names that were already used in the same scope but haven’t been defined yet.