Perhaps use this approach to better understand what your Go based command line interface (CLI) apps are doing. 00:00 Setup some code to debug https://github.com/spf13/cobra-cli/blob/main/README.md 01:27 Configure the VS code launch.json for running the debugger 02:00 Adding log points instead of print statements https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/blob/master/docs/debugging.md