Deprecated element

Reports usages of deprecated elements.

Example:

// Deprecated: Use io.SeekStart, io.SeekCurrent, and io.SeekEnd.
const (
 SEEK_SET int = 0 // seek relative to the origin of the file
 SEEK_CUR int = 1 // seek relative to the current offset
 SEEK_END int = 2 // seek relative to the end
)

According to Constants at go.dev, SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, and SEEK_END are deprecated.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoDeprecation

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | General

Inspection ID: GoDeprecation

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoDeprecation

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

GoLand 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,
Can be installed with plugin:	Go, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025