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date: '2024-11-05T16:32:28.563577'
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title: Debugging Stopped working for GoLang in VSCode on Mac Sequioa
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<p>If you've found that debugging go programs on mac has suddenly stopped working, try upgrading your go runtime - it seems that an xcode change may have caused some instability in delve with the upgrade to sequioa. Golang 1.22.3 no longer works properly on my machine but 1.23+ seems to be ok (see <a href="https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/issues/3539#issuecomment-2357699410">this thread</a>).</p>
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I noticed this problem when running a VSCode debug session and the system did not respect any of my breakpoints. When I stopped to carefully examine the output I saw a warning message:

```
Warning: no debug info found, some functionality will be missing such as stack traces and variable evaluation.
```

The solution was simply to run `brew upgrade golang`. Or of course if you installed golang from a .pkg from the website you can manually upgrade that way too.

Finally, I restarted VSCode and the IDE prompted me to update the go toolchain utilities including the delve debugger so I accepted this sugggestion.


Happy coding!