You're comparing a fully fledged framework to a language, so not apples to apples comparison. At an employer that heavily used golang, they had to reinvent fram

You're comparing a fully fledged framework to a language, so not apples to apples comparison. At an employer that heavily used golang, they had to reinvent frameworks (dependency injection, web app, RPC, etc.) to standardize how work was being done, and guess what, you ended up having huge stack traces anyway that some people mock ASP.NET or Spring for, not to mention very slow build times. Modifying small parts of code and rebuilding to re run unit tests was so time consuming it's not even funny. I had a faster experience with Scala and SBT, so that's saying something. > you can write the code with nothing but a text editor and a compiler Nothing is stopping you from doing the same in other languages. At some point, the benefits of what IDEs offer (refactoring, inspections, integrated debugging, profiling, etc.) almost become necessary when working on large programs.