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> The VS Code extension for Go, built using many of these tools, is now used by 41 percent of Go developers That's impressive, I didn't realize VS Code is that

• travmatt 6y ago
  I really enjoy vscode. It has a pretty shallow learning curve for the amount of tooling it provides.
• Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  Yeah I think it managed to take over a lot of users from Sublime Text and Atom, and it's probably the best option out there for people that don't want / can't have a full IDE like VS or IDEA. The latter is a licensed product, I had to pull some strings to get a license at my current job. Well worth it though, I worked in VS Code earlier but it wasn't as complete as IDEA. For example, in my particular case I work in an older codebase targeting ES5 (no transpilers or whatever) and PHP 5.3; setting the language mode to those, I get warnings if I try to use PHP's short array syntax or ES6+ specific functions. At the same time I'm working on a replacement in Typescript/React and Go. It just works without a hassle, and I get things like go to definition and common refactorings working out of the box. I still do my builds and running on the commandline though, it has to be portable.
  • _bxg1 6y ago
    My company offered to pay for IDEA, so I tried out the free version, and it was just miserably laggy. Not unusable, but it felt like every little interaction had a 100ms delay. On a brand new MacBook Pro. I decided I couldn't deal with that all day every day so I quickly went back to VSCode.
    • richardjennings 6y ago
      Catalina has caused a bad IDEA experience for me; updating tanked performance.