Golint is a linter for golang, providing basic style and syntax checking as well as scanning for common errors.

Golint is not compatible with the current version of gofmt (the main go code formatting program), in the sense that running gofmt on code that passes golint may produce code that does not pass golint. This is the product of a combination of bugs in golint, gofmt, and the go compiler, and should be fixed soon.

In the long term, golint hopes to be compatible with gofmt in the sense above, although running gofmt on code that does not completely pass golint may increase the number of errors, and golint will never object to all code that gofmt would change.

Please report bugs and feature requests to the issue tracker on github: http://github.com/bytbox/golint/issues.