Visual Studio goLang extension not found

There is limited support of golang with visual studio. Probably because windows is not the most popular platform for go development. I only found one go extension with only two installs (not sure it supports debugging).

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Ivan.VsGo&ssr=false#overview

as suggested you will have better luck with the cross platform vs code which has an extension supplied by google. It’s probably the most common ide in tutorials.

if your are a jetbrains fan they have a Goland product you can buy which give a more ide experience than vscode.

Hello @Marty's Laptop,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Can you confirm that if you downloaded this Go extension? If so, this extension is for Visual Studio Code(It's different from Visual Studio IDE), you need to download Visual Studio Code to install and use it.

Currently, I don’t find related Go Language extensions which support Visual Studio IDE, for example Visual Studio 2022. You can double check here: Visual Studio Marketplace.

More details, see this document: Install and configure Visual Studio Code for Go development.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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