# goloader

**Repository Path**: mirrors_sourcegraph/goloader

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: goloader
- **Description**: golang.org/x/tools/go/loader but with a definable types.Importer
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-3-Clause
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-11-23
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-17

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

# goloader

A fork of golang.org/x/tools/go/loader but with support for choosing the [`types.Importer`](https://golang.org/pkg/go/types/#Importer) that is used.

## Why?

By default, go/loader uses it's own internal implementation of `types.Importer` which loads *all* information by reading Go source files from disk and then performing type-checking. This can be quite slow, because it includes transitive dependencies. For writing things such as editor plugins, [this isn't suitable](https://github.com/sourcegraph/go-langserver/issues/178).