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The GoLand IDE. Makes Go programming a breeze. Can't imagine programming in Go without it. Also used some of the other Intellij IDE's, including Intellij Idea (

by rmk 4y ago

The GoLand IDE. Makes Go programming a breeze. Can't imagine programming in Go without it. Also used some of the other Intellij IDE's, including Intellij Idea (Java) and WebStorm (JavaScript). All very nice products.

LecroJS 4y ago
What makes you prefer GoLand over another editor with LSP integration? I don’t write much Go but I’m curious if it provides other features for when I inevitably learn it
- rmk 4y ago
  I have used Visual Studio Code (do not know if it integrates with LSP, but I generally found it lacking in search and such). The other IDE/editor I really enjoyed, particularly for Python, was Sublime Text. I haven't used it recently for Go programming, but when I had used it a few years ago, it wasn't very good because of a janky toolchain it required. GoLand, on the other hand, is very polished. Of course, it's unfair to compare a paid product vs free/freemium products, but as far as the experience goes, GoLand is pretty much unbeatable. Things I really enjoy about GoLand: - Excellent flagging of syntax and type errors; excellent warnings about misspelled variable names, cues for shadowing of variables etc. - Provides excellent guidance on following Go conventions such as comment structure, variable naming etc. - Excellent autoimports (and guesses the pretty well) and autoformatting, which, combined with the flagging of errors/warnings ensures pretty seamless development, minimizing compile/run cycles for me (can't imagine how it would be with emacs, which has been my preferred editor for many previous languages). - Nice refactoring support (but can get dicey when doing external symbols that end up affecting many packages). - Great documentation tooltips that make it very easy to hop back and forth from callsites to definition sites. - Excellent omnisearch. - Beautiful UI and UI elements (although I hear they are taking it in the VS Code direction of late, which will be a disaster). - Fairly responsive and good at indexing large codebases, just works for the most part.
  - LecroJS 4y ago
    Gotcha, thanks for the insight. Quick background on LSP: I believe vscode either created or popularized accessible LSP integration for other editors. Not sure which it is though
absolute_unit22 4y ago
I’m curious, have you tried just IntelliJ+Go plug-in ? From what I understand IntelliJ and Go plug-in = GoLand? I’m asking because I’m starting a new job and wondering whether to ask for IntelliJ license or GoLand license. Advantage of InteliJ is that it works for most programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript/JacaScript: all via Plugins) and I don’t think GoLand is as flexible.
- 411111111111111 4y ago
  I can't speak for GoLand but people make the same argument about webstorm and pycharm too occasionally... Which I both use. They're slightly different as a lot of the java-only features are removed and a few things are preconfigured making the initial experience great. I value that enough to spend the extra money for the full license (all products) vs just intellij from my personal money.
- rmk 4y ago
  GoLand is pretty much a full-featured, Go-focused IDE. If you are going to be spending all your time or the majority of it in Go code, then you should get GoLand.
  - absolute_unit22 4y ago
    Thanks! I think I will probably go ahead and do that; thanks :)

by rmk 4y ago

LecroJS 4y ago

What makes you prefer GoLand over another editor with LSP integration? I don’t write much Go but I’m curious if it provides other features for when I inevitably learn it

rmk 4y ago
I have used Visual Studio Code (do not know if it integrates with LSP, but I generally found it lacking in search and such). The other IDE/editor I really enjoyed, particularly for Python, was Sublime Text. I haven't used it recently for Go programming, but when I had used it a few years ago, it wasn't very good because of a janky toolchain it required. GoLand, on the other hand, is very polished. Of course, it's unfair to compare a paid product vs free/freemium products, but as far as the experience goes, GoLand is pretty much unbeatable. Things I really enjoy about GoLand: - Excellent flagging of syntax and type errors; excellent warnings about misspelled variable names, cues for shadowing of variables etc. - Provides excellent guidance on following Go conventions such as comment structure, variable naming etc. - Excellent autoimports (and guesses the pretty well) and autoformatting, which, combined with the flagging of errors/warnings ensures pretty seamless development, minimizing compile/run cycles for me (can't imagine how it would be with emacs, which has been my preferred editor for many previous languages). - Nice refactoring support (but can get dicey when doing external symbols that end up affecting many packages). - Great documentation tooltips that make it very easy to hop back and forth from callsites to definition sites. - Excellent omnisearch. - Beautiful UI and UI elements (although I hear they are taking it in the VS Code direction of late, which will be a disaster). - Fairly responsive and good at indexing large codebases, just works for the most part.
- LecroJS 4y ago
  Gotcha, thanks for the insight. Quick background on LSP: I believe vscode either created or popularized accessible LSP integration for other editors. Not sure which it is though

absolute_unit22 4y ago

I’m curious, have you tried just IntelliJ+Go plug-in ? From what I understand IntelliJ and Go plug-in = GoLand? I’m asking because I’m starting a new job and wondering whether to ask for IntelliJ license or GoLand license. Advantage of InteliJ is that it works for most programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript/JacaScript: all via Plugins) and I don’t think GoLand is as flexible.

411111111111111 4y ago
I can't speak for GoLand but people make the same argument about webstorm and pycharm too occasionally... Which I both use. They're slightly different as a lot of the java-only features are removed and a few things are preconfigured making the initial experience great. I value that enough to spend the extra money for the full license (all products) vs just intellij from my personal money.
rmk 4y ago
GoLand is pretty much a full-featured, Go-focused IDE. If you are going to be spending all your time or the majority of it in Go code, then you should get GoLand.
- absolute_unit22 4y ago
  Thanks! I think I will probably go ahead and do that; thanks :)