--- title: "gopls now on by default in the VS Code Go extension" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 348 published_at: "2021-02-05" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/348" --- Plus lots of Go facts, and it's looking likely for the generics proposal. | #348 — February 5, 2021 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/348) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/kuogasmw8unnjqg3duhu.jpg)](https://blog.golang.org/gopls-vscode-go) [`gopls` Now On by Default in the VS Code Go Extension](https://blog.golang.org/gopls-vscode-go) — The Go extension for Visual Studio Code now uses the `gopls` language server by default which makes the Go code editing experience better than ever before with things like intelligent autocompletion and refactoring features. There’s [an 8-minute screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MXIGYrMk80) showing off what you can do and how to get started. Go Tools Team [The State of Go](https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2021/02/03/the-state-of-go/) — We’re looking forward to the results of the recent [official 2020 Go survey](https://blog.golang.org/survey2020), but until then we have this compilation of facts put together by JetBrains’ Florin Pățan. We discover Go is _huge_ in China, there are over a million Go developers, and what testing and Web frameworks gophers like. Florin Pățan [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0f4741bf.png)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/training/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV4) [Remote Instructor-Led Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, & Python Training](https://www.ardanlabs.com/training/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV4) — We offer live-streaming remote training sessions for individual engineers and companies that want to augment their knowledge in Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Python. We’ve trained over 10,000 engineers via our carefully crafted classes. Ardan Labs sponsor [Generics Proposal Moves to 'Likely Accept'](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43651#issuecomment-772720103) — Two weeks ago we mentioned how the generics proposal had become an _official_ proposal. Now, that proposal is one step even closer to reality due to the general consensus. Russ Cox et al. [How to Use `//go:embed`](https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/how-to-use-go-embed/) — We’ve linked to other articles on the new embed functionality, but this article runs through some use cases we’ve not seen before. Carl Johnson [Go 1.15.8 and Go 1.14.15 Released](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/rUbPPotvaFM/m/H4ZrXHUmBAAJ) — A reasonably minor [collection](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.15.8+label%3ACherryPickApproved) of bug fixes, mostly. 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Go Time Podcast podcast ▶[An Introduction to Unit Testing with Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-eO9_lNi7w) — _(27 minutes.)_ Chloé Powell 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/a4qebrfo11wqxgkqlh7v.jpg)](https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker) [Ticker: A Terminal Stock Ticker with Live Updates and Position Tracking](https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker) — In these financially ‘interesting’ times, you might be looking at the price of stocks more often than before and this cute Go-powered tool could be just the thing for you. Ani Channarasappa [AWS SSO Support in the AWS SDK for Go](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/aws-sso-support-in-the-aws-sdk-for-go/) — Amazon’s Go SDK team has announced that users can now support AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) credential providers from their Go apps. Amazon Web Services [A Go Implementation of `fluent-ffmpeg`](https://github.com/modfy/go-fluent-ffmpeg) — FFMPEG is basically a command line Swiss Army knife of video manipulation and editing but what if you want to work with it in a more idiomatically gopher-esque fashion? Try this. Modfy [Fast and Reliable Feature Management for the Modern Enterprise](http://launchdarkly.com/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q4-cooperpress) LaunchDarkly sponsor [Notify: Send Notifications to Various Messaging Services](https://github.com/nikoksr/notify) — Supports Discord, Microsoft Tems, Slack, Telegram, Pushbullet, and e-mail. Niko Köser [yq: A Portable Command-Line YAML Processor](https://github.com/mikefarah/yq) — [jq](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) is a popular tool for working with JSON from the command line – yq takes a similar idea to the [YAML](https://yaml.org/) world. 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