Check out Derek Parker's talk from GopherCon 2015. He provides specific reasons gdb has difficulties with debugging Go programs, and why a tool which specifically understands how Go functions is needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InG72scKPd4
Re:Using the gdb debugger with Go
by bampolampy on Thursday August 06, 2015 @01:29PM
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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
I'll certainly be watching delve closely and using it myself! I am sure I'd have better luck having specific go issues resolved with the delve team since it's a focussed project.