Source code analyzer that helps you to make your Go programs more consistent.

This installs go-consistent binary under your $GOPATH/bin:

go get github.com/Quasilyte/go-consistent

If $GOPATH/bin is under your system $PATH, go-consistent command should be available after that.
This should print the help message:

go-consistent --help

You can pass package names and separate Go filenames to the go-consistent tool:

go-consistent foo.go bar.go mypkg

Arguments like ... are planned, but are not implemented yet.

go-consistent checks provided Go source code for consistency.

• If you want to check consistency of a single file or package, just provide their name
• If you want to check the whole project, you should pass all its packages as an arguments

To understand what go-consistent does, take a look at these 3 lines of code:

lit1 := map[K]V{}
lit2 := map[K]V{}
m := make(map[K]V)

lit1, lit2 and m are initialized to an empty, non-nil map. The problem is that you have at least 2 ways to do it:

1. lit1 and lit2 use the first option, the map literal
2. m uses the second option, the make function

Neither of these are the "best", but on the package or project level, you might want to prefer only one of them, for consistency reasons.

go-consistent tool detects that map literal used more frequently (2 vs 1) in the example above, so it suggest you to replace m initialization expression to use map literal instead of make function.

There are many similar cases where you have 2 or more options of expressing the same thing in Go, go-consistent tries to handle as much patterns as possible.

• Zero-configuration. Defaults should be good enough for most users. Other configuration is performed using command line arguments.
• Can handle any size of projects. This means that there should be no significant memory consumption growth with the increased number of packages being checked. There can be "fast, but memory-hungry" option that can work best for small-average proejcts, but it should be always possible to check huge projects on the developer machine.