For the state of the art vim and emacs go support, look at gocode, which runs an auto completion daemon. I don't know what you mean by "forcing this attitude o

For the state of the art vim and emacs go support, look at gocode, which runs an auto completion daemon. I don't know what you mean by "forcing this attitude on the tooling". The only thing that people tend eschew a tool for is if it's too big, like ides tend to be. Go has a plan9 heritage, and therefore a unix heritage. People like the tools to be small and designed to integrate. The reason that I like writing go is because save for C, nothing else feels as unixy, as vague as that sounds. It sounds like you ran into some hostility. If people are railing on others about their IDE usage, they're assholes, and assholes do tend to stick out. Go is opinionated, and while that tends to make for a cohesive ecosystem, it also attracts assholes unfortunately. Most go developers, though, while they aren't interested in an IDE for themselves, have no problem with someone else using one if they prefer that mode of working.