Gopls enabled by default in VSCode

[kale...@googlemail.com]

This twitter announcement was made today about the Gopls language server being enabled by default in the VSCode editor.

https://twitter.com/golang/status/1356289079575506950

Is this a wise move, seeing as though the documentation for Gopls states:

"It is currently in alpha, so it is not stable."

Source: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/gopls

Why is a piece of software that is in alpha and not stable being enabled by default in an editor used by a large number of Go developers. This should be 'opt-in' until the language server is stable.

[Brian Hatfield]

In this particular case, I would assume that documentation is outdated. They've been hard at work on gopls and would not set an unstable tool as the default, as evidenced by them developing it as the not-default for some time now.

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[Tyler Compton]

I can't find the announcement off hand, but I remember gopls being announced as stable at least a few months ago. Like Brian, I think this documentation needs to be updated.

Anecdotally, I was around and using gopls back when it was definitely not stable. It's gotten leagues better and now I have no problems with it. I wouldn't worry about gopls. 

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[Dhruvil Dave]

Here's the related issue that refers to enabling `gopls` be default:

 https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/issues/1037

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