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14.3.2 Syntax/Error Checking with Flymake

There are two ways of using flymake with Go:

1. goflymake, which internally uses go build to capture all errors that a regular compilation would also produce
2. flymake-go for a more lightweight solution that only uses gofmt and as such is only able to catch syntax errors. Unlike goflymake, however, it does not require an additional executable.

Additionally, there is flycheck, a modern replacement for flymake, which comes with built-in support for Go. In addition to using go build or gofmt, it also has support for go vet, golint and errcheck.