HN Explorer

Ask HN: Best Go Integration with an Editor?

4 points by marcus_holmes ↗ HN
I've been using VS Code, but finally realised today that I'm fighting the editor to get it to autocomplete properly, and it's too feature-rich to be usable now. What's everyone using that has good Go integration?

8 comments

[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 30.5 ms ] thread
cultofthecow
GoLand and that's it. Simply the best and the only tool.
sethammons
I use GoLand. I’ve been writing Go for the better part of a decade now. I started in Sublime Text. Things were good. Then came VS Code. The experience was so good that I dropped Sublime in a heartbeat. Eventually, modules were introduced and language servers seemed to kinda sometimes work. VS Code would routinely not autocomplete or allow jump to definition. I begrudgingly tried GoLand. I didn’t like it at first since I was so proficient in VS Code. I would dance between the two editors, only going to GoLand when VS Code’s Go module would fail. I gave up fighting VS Code’s Go experience and fully switched to GoLand. I should have done it sooner.
marcus_holmes
Thanks. I've had the same bad first reaction to GoLand. I might give it another try and see if I can get over it. Especially since everyone seems to love it so much!
diehunde
For a big project GoLand is the way to go. For small or quick edits I like to use vim with the vim-go plugin[1].

[1]https://github.com/fatih/vim-go

marcus_holmes
man I love Vim, and it's my go-to for devops. But I can't use it as a regular editor. The number of web forms I've got 2/3 of the way through and then hit "escape" from muscle memory :( web forms don't like it when people hit "escape" halfway through :(