Linters status in general and unusedwrite check in particular

[ruz]

Hello,

Started using vscode clone. Just by incident noticed highlighted code in the IDE.

This was unusedwrite Analyzer error. Looks like gopls check <filename> runs this analyzer.

Couldn't find any other ways to run it. Tried golangci-lint, staticcheck and go vet.

I would prefer to have one linters runner in the project. How do I integrate this analyzer into golangci-lint?

This analyzer finds common annoying bug in for loops where people change fields of the iterator forgetting to save the change. This mistake is so easy to make:

for _, e := range aList {
    e.x = "foo"
}

[ldez]

Hello,

You should enable the check:

linters-settings:
  govet:
    enable:
      - unusedwrite

https://golangci-lint.run/usage/linters/#govet

[ruz]

Thanks. This page is so big. Either slow internet or whatever, but my initial ctrl+f was unsuccessful.

Any idea why this check is disabled by default?

[ldez]

golangci-lint uses the same default as go vet.

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/b56645a87b28840a180d64077877cb46570b4176/src/cmd/vet/main.go#L49-L81