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Yes, _commercial_ C (an Java) IDEs are extremely powerful, but it's a bit unfair to compare them to _open source_ Go IDEs/editors. From what I heard, the only c

• BoorishBears 7y ago
  Not that I buy this argument in the slightest but: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/csharp https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/csharp (Are you going to say, it's unfair to compare something with the commercial backing of Microsoft, because Google backs Go)
  • imtringued 7y ago
    >because Google backs Go The degree of backing is completely different though. They appear to only do the minimum effort that they need for themselves. Microsoft provides good C# tooling because they want you to stay in the Microsoft ecosystem.
    • BoorishBears 7y ago
      They want you to stay in the Microsoft ecosystem is why they made an open source IDE and great tooling for it that competes directly with an IDE they sell for up to 1000$/seat/year that actually tries to get you to stay in their ecosystem with things like free Azure credits, preferential Azure pricing, free Windows Server and MSSQL licenses Not that I think any of this is not entirely tangential to the original point...
• tsimionescu 7y ago
  Eclipse is far more powerful of a C and Java IDE than any non-commercial Go (I)DE. NetBeans is also a great Java IDE. They're not as powerful as IntelliJ or VS, but they are still miles ahead of any Go plugin I've used. Also note, for C you have gdb, you have ctags, you have all sorts of great plugins for Emacs or Vim or whatever. You also have stellar plugins for Javascript and TypeScript, for VSCode, for Emacs, for vim and many others. I'm not just comparing VS with vim+go plugins.