Your first commit: Development tools
July 2, 2026 · View on GitHub
This tutorial uses Visual Studio Code with the Go extension. Editor choice and the Go tooling install are covered in the canonical prerequisites guide:
Install VS Code and the Go extension from there, then follow the Go extension's Quick Start to install the additional Go tools. If you are using Codespaces or the VS Code dev container, the Go extension is already installed for you.
Test it out
At this point you should be able to open any of the Go files in the repo and see syntax highlighting working.
Launching VS Code
The best way to launch VS Code for Go is to do File → Open Folder on the repository. You can do this from the command shell with code ., which opens the current directory as a folder in VS Code.