I think his point is that writing Go with a simple editor is just fine. Some languages are a pain to write without an IDE. On the other hand, I'm with you on t

I think his point is that writing Go with a simple editor is just fine. Some languages are a pain to write without an IDE. On the other hand, I'm with you on the fact that not having a good IDE is actually a bad thing. If you want to code with a single editor, that's fine, but IDEs boost productivity a lot once you learn how to use them. Not having a proper IDE is a minus for a language in my opinion.