x/tools/gopls: vscode take minutes to load packages before completion becomes available

[andig]

Go version

go version go1.23.2 darwin/arm64

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='arm64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/Users/andig/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOENV='/Users/andig/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='arm64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/Users/andig/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/Users/andig/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.23.2/libexec'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='local'
GOTOOLDIR='/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.23.2/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.23.2'
GODEBUG=''
GOTELEMETRY='on'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/Users/andig/Library/Application Support/go/telemetry'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOARM64='v8.0'
AR='ar'
CC='cc'
CXX='c++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/Users/andig/htdocs/evcc/go.mod'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/sv/rs_453y57xj86xsbz3kw1mbc0000gn/T/go-build3370722460=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'

What did you do?

Open VScode

gopls version:

Build info
----------
golang.org/x/tools/gopls v0.16.2
    golang.org/x/tools/gopls@v0.16.2 h1:K1z03MlikHfaMTtG01cUeL5FAOTJnITuNe0TWOcg8tM=
    github.com/BurntSushi/toml@v1.2.1 h1:9F2/+DoOYIOksmaJFPw1tGFy1eDnIJXg+UHjuD8lTak=
    github.com/google/go-cmp@v0.6.0 h1:ofyhxvXcZhMsU5ulbFiLKl/XBFqE1GSq7atu8tAmTRI=
    golang.org/x/exp/typeparams@v0.0.0-20221212164502-fae10dda9338 h1:2O2DON6y3XMJiQRAS1UWU+54aec2uopH3x7MAiqGW6Y=
    golang.org/x/mod@v0.20.0 h1:utOm6MM3R3dnawAiJgn0y+xvuYRsm1RKM/4giyfDgV0=
    golang.org/x/sync@v0.8.0 h1:3NFvSEYkUoMifnESzZl15y791HH1qU2xm6eCJU5ZPXQ=
    golang.org/x/telemetry@v0.0.0-20240829154258-f29ab539cc98 h1:Wm3cG5X6sZ0RSVRc/H1/sciC4AT6HAKgLCSH2lbpR/c=
    golang.org/x/text@v0.16.0 h1:a94ExnEXNtEwYLGJSIUxnWoxoRz/ZcCsV63ROupILh4=
    golang.org/x/tools@v0.22.1-0.20240829175637-39126e24d653 h1:6bJEg2w2kUHWlfdJaESYsmNfI1LKAZQi6zCa7LUn7eI=
    golang.org/x/vuln@v1.0.4 h1:SP0mPeg2PmGCu03V+61EcQiOjmpri2XijexKdzv8Z1I=
    honnef.co/go/tools@v0.4.7 h1:9MDAWxMoSnB6QoSqiVr7P5mtkT9pOc1kSxchzPCnqJs=
    mvdan.cc/gofumpt@v0.6.0 h1:G3QvahNDmpD+Aek/bNOLrFR2XC6ZAdo62dZu65gmwGo=
    mvdan.cc/xurls/v2@v2.5.0 h1:lyBNOm8Wo71UknhUs4QTFUNNMyxy2JEIaKKo0RWOh+8=
go: go1.23.0

What did you see happen?

Long wait time loading packages for multi root workspace.

What did you expect to see?

Loading packages used to be fast.

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues and Documentation

• x/tools/gopls: long initial workspace load durations for workspace with many packages #69523
• x/tools/gopls: gopls compiles after every newstart on large projects #53332 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: add a setting not to download modules #39264 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: init project cost long time when open the go project #62715 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: stuck on "Setting up workspace: Loading packages..." #42255 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: 'imports' does not seem to prefer current major version import path. #60824 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: performance regression on monorepos with gopls@v0.15.0+ #66647 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: >45s for first completion of unimported package #36222 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: not working #37119 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: Either gopls cache always invalidates on 2nd save for M1 mac (or darwin, not sure) or vs code extension host fails, same config works perfectly on linux. #54007 (closed)

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