How to Install Golangcli-lint?

Since we have Go installed now, we can proceed toward installing golangci-lint. In Ubuntu we can install golangci-lint with snap with just one command

sudo snap install golangci-lint

Now, since we are installing through snap we need to ensure that /snap/bin is included in our PATH environment variable. To do so we can run this command

export PATH=$PATH:/snap/bin

To verify installation check the version of the same

golangci-lint –version

And that is it, we have successfully installed golangci-lint. We can now use it to lint our Go code and enforce code quality standards.

Golang which is also known as Go is just an open-source programming language that is used to develop web apps and network applications, etc. It is a high-level programming language and is statically typed and compiled.

Golangci-lint is just a fast linter for Go. Now, a linter is a tool that inspects code files using a set of rules that identify issues that lead to misunderstanding, result in unexpected outcomes, or make the code harder to read. Additionally, linter can aid in identifying potential defects in the code, such as undeclared variable assignment, which can result in runtime errors, retrieving the value from a global variable, which complicates debugging, and other issues.

Golangci-lint employs caching, enables yaml configuration, runs multiple linters in parallel, integrates with all major IDEs, and comes with dozens of linters.

So, despite the normal advantages of linter, golangci-linter also improves efficiency and speed with parallel linters and thus increases performance.