[The original answer is outdated; here is up-to-date information provided by the vscode-go maintainers. The updated answer is now marked as “Recommended” in the Go collective] The plugin has changed a lot since 2019. In 2021, Go Modules became the default which may have changed how the program is built and analyzed. The vscode-go plugin … Read more
Just add a comment above it, starting with the name of your type (or function, method etc.) like this: // Agent is … type Agent struct { name string categoryId int } This linter error is caused by your Agent type being exported, even if its attributes are not. To not export your type, define … Read more
Just use a key type: type key int const ( keyPrincipalID key = iota // … ) Since you’ve defined a separate type, it will never collide. Even if you have two packages, pkg1.key(0) != pkg2.key(0). See also: Go Blog about key collisions in context.