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Tuesday November, 2025

r/golang

Why is "Go to Implementation" insanely slow in VS Code/gopls while Go to Definition and Find References are instant?

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I've been using Go with VS Code + gopls for a while, and everything is snappy except one thing that drives me nuts:

Go to Definition → instant
Find References → instant
Go to Implementation (or "Find All Implementations") → takes some seconds, or sometimes just freezes entirely

This happens …

Create tests when stdin is required? fmt.Scan()?

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How do you send stdin inputs to your Go apps when your running tests on the app and the app required users input to proceed? For example if you have an app and you have fmt.Scan() method in the app waiting for the user input.

Here is a simple example …

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