gopls performance issues over the last year

[cloud lynx]

Hey all!

I've been having issues with vscode+gopls for a long time now and I'm pretty done with it so I'm finally going try to investigate what's happening (or just quit using it)

gopls in vscode is driving me insane, I have to restart it every 10 minutes roughly, it freezes almost as soon as I make any sort of syntax error (which is natural when mid-way through writing code)

I have a pair of quite powerful machines (Ryzen 9 5950x, Macbook M3 Pro) and it feels like I'm back on the 2006 family PC... the codebases I work on aren't really huge, a couple of years old and a handful of developers but nowhere near large organisation scale (yet)

Does anyone out there know how to make gopls perform like other language servers? or is it just a matter of spending money on jetbrains?

Or can I disable gopls and switch back to what vscode used before it existed? Or is there an alternative like how the Rust community spawned rust-analyser?

[elfin oxide]

are you able to get any debug logging from it when it freezes (view -> outputs -> gopls)?

your experience certainly doesn’t sound universal to me, it sounds like it might be choking on something specific

(it also sounds like something that the gopls team might be interested in helping investigate if you’re able to provide them enough information)

[cloud lynx]

Sure I can help! Anecdotally too, a lot of folks in my own discord community experience the same slowness so it seems to be at least somewhat universal at least in my small circle of Go devs

it is only on larger projects, one-file libraries are fine, but my day to day is usually on projects of thousands of source files

[cloud lynx]

[Error - 6:28:53 PM] 2024/05/30 18:28:53 imports fixes: AllImportsFixes: D:\Work\projectname\backend\resources\assessment\timeseries.go:147:113: missing ',' before newline in argument list (and 23 more errors)
    file="D:\\Work\\projectname\\backend\\resources\\assessment\\timeseries.go"

[Info  - 6:29:13 PM] 2024/05/30 18:29:13 background imports cache refresh starting

[Info  - 6:29:14 PM] 2024/05/30 18:29:14 background refresh finished after 346.0617ms

Last log before the freeze of death

just stuck with this until I either wait probably 10+ minutes or restart it manually

And the editor is basically stuck with the errors caused by syntax being wrong due to me writing the code - obviously the syntax will be wrong until I've finished writing, this always seems to trip up gopls

if I edit the code in notepad for example and paste it in and it's syntactically correct, gopls is fine, it's just while I'm editing and producing obvious mid-edit invalid syntax at some point it just chokes and gives up

if vscode had an "end of year summary" this command would be in the thousands for sure 😂 😭

[cloud lynx]

Reviving a dead thread but this is continuing to piss me off

Could this be related to slowness/constant freezing?

[Error - 7:12:13 PM] 2024/06/18 19:12:13 tidy: diagnosing file:///D:/Work/storyden/go.mod: err: exit status 1: stderr: go: downloading golang.org/x/tools v0.21.1-0.20240508182429-e35e4ccd0d2d
go: github.com/Southclaws/storyden imports
    github.com/a8m/enter imports
    entgo.io/ent/entc imports
    golang.org/x/tools/go/packages: module lookup disabled by GOPROXY=off

[quick iris]

pass, but GOPROXY=off certainly isnt a default setting