Earlier today I was coding on a project that uses pre-commit, and for a Go codebase is common that one of the step is to run golangci-lint.
For some reason today it was taking forever (which is not a common behaviour, usually it’s pretty fast), ended up the process was consuming 30 GIGABYTES!!!
One friend offered to help, and after some debugging we wasn’t able to find anything different that would suggest that high memory usage. We did what all programmers do when something is not working properly, we tried to update, and it worked!
The thing is, golangci-lint is not a fan of Go version updates, the project I am working on had a newer Go version than the one I used to install golangci-lint.
Learning of the day, save yourself the trouble of debugging and looking for the problem, just update the tool and be happy! :D