Go does have IDE features in it's tooling though (eg gofmt). A lot of text editors use Go's official tooling and basically end up functioning a lot like a cut d

Go does have IDE features in it's tooling though (eg gofmt). A lot of text editors use Go's official tooling and basically end up functioning a lot like a cut down IDE (eg Sublime has autocompletion, build tools, etc). There's even vim plugins to run these tools. So it's a little deceptive when some within the Go community argue that they don't need an IDE because half the time they're basically running their text editor as a lightweight IDE. As an aside note there's also LiteIDE which, at one point, was the "unofficial official" Go IDE - if you will. A de facto recommendation for anyone new to Go and fancying an IDE. I'm not sure if anyone still uses it for any serious Go development but that supported a few more features that the average Go-enabled text editors didn't at that time.