GoLand Exact Theme

A VS Code theme and lightweight companion extension tuned to make the editor feel closer to dark GoLand, especially for Go projects.

Goals

• Match GoLand dark window surfaces and contrast
• Match project/sidebar colors and selection behavior
• Match Go syntax colors more closely for keywords, strings, functions, types, and comments
• Add a few Go-specific editor affordances that stock VS Code themes cannot provide on their own

What This Includes

• GoLand Exact Dark: the color theme
• GoLand Exact Icons: the icon theme
• A small extension layer that adds:
  • Go-aware coloring adjustments for some symbols that are hard to express with theme scopes alone
  • clickable inline implementation hints for interface methods
  • a Reveal Active File button in the Explorer title bar

Scope

This project is intentionally optimized for Go-first workflows.

• The UI palette is generic and works for any language.
• The extra editor behavior and symbol coloring are primarily designed for Go files.
• The extension uses heuristics, not a full Go parser, so small differences from GoLand can still exist.

Installation

Local

1. Symlink or copy this folder into your VS Code extensions directory.
2. Reload the editor window.
3. Select GoLand Exact Dark from the theme picker.
4. Select GoLand Exact Icons from the file icon theme picker if it is not already active.

VSIX

1. Run:

npm run validate
npx @vscode/vsce package

2. Install the generated .vsix file in VS Code.

Development

npm run validate

Notes

• File icons are separate from the color theme.
• Some visual differences will always remain because VS Code and GoLand render UI and semantic language data differently.
• Implementation hints depend on your Go language tooling returning implementation locations.
• Before publishing publicly, set repository, homepage, and bugs fields in package.json to your real project URLs.