- errcheck# checking for unchecked errors, these unchecked errors can be critical bugs in some cases
- gosimple# specializes in simplifying a code
- govet# reports suspicious constructs, such as Printf calls whose arguments do not align with the format string
- ineffassign# detects when assignments to existing variables are not used
- staticcheck# is a go vet on steroids, applying a ton of static analysis checks
- typecheck# like the front-end of a Go compiler, parses and type-checks Go code
- unused# checks for unused constants, variables, functions and types
## disabled by default
- asasalint# checks for pass []any as any in variadic func(...any)
- asciicheck# checks that your code does not contain non-ASCII identifiers
- bidichk# checks for dangerous unicode character sequences
- bodyclose# checks whether HTTP response body is closed successfully
- cyclop# checks function and package cyclomatic complexity
- dupl# tool for code clone detection
- durationcheck# checks for two durations multiplied together
- errname# checks that sentinel errors are prefixed with the Err and error types are suffixed with the Error
- errorlint# finds code that will cause problems with the error wrapping scheme introduced in Go 1.13
- execinquery# checks query string in Query function which reads your Go src files and warning it finds
- exhaustive# checks exhaustiveness of enum switch statements
- exportloopref# checks for pointers to enclosing loop variables
- forbidigo# forbids identifiers
- funlen# tool for detection of long functions
- gochecknoglobals# checks that no global variables exist
- gochecknoinits# checks that no init functions are present in Go code
- gocognit# computes and checks the cognitive complexity of functions
- goconst# finds repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant
- gocritic# provides diagnostics that check for bugs, performance and style issues
- gocyclo# computes and checks the cyclomatic complexity of functions
- godot# checks if comments end in a period
- goimports# in addition to fixing imports, goimports also formats your code in the same style as gofmt
- gomnd# detects magic numbers
- gomoddirectives# manages the use of 'replace', 'retract', and 'excludes' directives in go.mod
- gomodguard# allow and block lists linter for direct Go module dependencies. This is different from depguard where there are different block types for example version constraints and module recommendations
- goprintffuncname# checks that printf-like functions are named with f at the end
- gosec# inspects source code for security problems
- lll# reports long lines
- loggercheck# checks key value pairs for common logger libraries (kitlog,klog,logr,zap)
- makezero# finds slice declarations with non-zero initial length
- nakedret# finds naked returns in functions greater than a specified function length
- nestif# reports deeply nested if statements
- nilerr# finds the code that returns nil even if it checks that the error is not nil
- nilnil# checks that there is no simultaneous return of nil error and an invalid value
- noctx# finds sending http request without context.Context
- nolintlint# reports ill-formed or insufficient nolint directives
- nonamedreturns# reports all named returns
- nosprintfhostport# checks for misuse of Sprintf to construct a host with port in a URL
- predeclared# finds code that shadows one of Go's predeclared identifiers
- promlinter# checks Prometheus metrics naming via promlint
- reassign# checks that package variables are not reassigned
- revive# fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go, drop-in replacement of golint
- rowserrcheck# checks whether Err of rows is checked successfully
- sqlclosecheck# checks that sql.Rows and sql.Stmt are closed
- stylecheck# is a replacement for golint
- tenv# detects using os.Setenv instead of t.Setenv since Go1.17
- testableexamples# checks if examples are testable (have an expected output)
- testpackage# makes you use a separate _test package
- tparallel# detects inappropriate usage of t.Parallel() method in your Go test codes
- unconvert# removes unnecessary type conversions
- unparam# reports unused function parameters
- usestdlibvars# detects the possibility to use variables/constants from the Go standard library
#- prealloc # [premature optimization, but can be used in some cases] finds slice declarations that could potentially be preallocated
#- varnamelen # [great idea, but too many false positives] checks that the length of a variable's name matches its scope
#- wrapcheck # checks that errors returned from external packages are wrapped
## disabled
#- containedctx # detects struct contained context.Context field
#- contextcheck # [too many false positives] checks the function whether use a non-inherited context
#- depguard # [replaced by gomodguard] checks if package imports are in a list of acceptable packages
#- dogsled # checks assignments with too many blank identifiers (e.g. x, _, _, _, := f())
#- dupword # [useless without config] checks for duplicate words in the source code
#- errchkjson # [don't see profit + I'm against of omitting errors like in the first example https://github.com/breml/errchkjson] checks types passed to the json encoding functions. Reports unsupported types and optionally reports occasions, where the check for the returned error can be omitted
#- forcetypeassert # [replaced by errcheck] finds forced type assertions
#- goerr113 # [too strict] checks the errors handling expressions
#- gofmt # [replaced by goimports] checks whether code was gofmt-ed
#- gofumpt # [replaced by goimports, gofumports is not available yet] checks whether code was gofumpt-ed
#- grouper # analyzes expression groups
#- importas # enforces consistent import aliases
#- maintidx # measures the maintainability index of each function
#- misspell # [useless] finds commonly misspelled English words in comments
#- nlreturn # [too strict and mostly code is not more readable] checks for a new line before return and branch statements to increase code clarity
#- paralleltest # [too many false positives] detects missing usage of t.Parallel() method in your Go test
#- tagliatelle # checks the struct tags
#- thelper # detects golang test helpers without t.Helper() call and checks the consistency of test helpers
#- wsl # [too strict and mostly code is not more readable] whitespace linter forces you to use empty lines
## deprecated
#- deadcode # [deprecated, replaced by unused] finds unused code
#- exhaustivestruct # [deprecated, replaced by exhaustruct] checks if all struct's fields are initialized
#- golint # [deprecated, replaced by revive] golint differs from gofmt. Gofmt reformats Go source code, whereas golint prints out style mistakes
#- ifshort # [deprecated] checks that your code uses short syntax for if-statements whenever possible
