For IDE you can try goland(which is Intellij Idea for go). For replacing shell scripts go should be fine. It's closer to C than Java, so you will often write "i

For IDE you can try goland(which is Intellij Idea for go). For replacing shell scripts go should be fine. It's closer to C than Java, so you will often write "if err!=nil" which is not a problem actually. Go feels like C with Hashmaps and simplified threading.