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Going through this, I now realize one of the significant reasons I took such a big liking to Go. They realize [1] how important it is to make it easy not just f
by shurcooL 14y ago
Going through this, I now realize one of the significant reasons I took such a big liking to Go. They realize [1] how important it is to make it easy not just for a programmer to work with the language, but also for writing tools that work with the language. And this happens to be very important for what I do. [2]
[1] http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.slide#34 http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.slide#34
[2] https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception#conception https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception#conception
- laureny 14y ago> but also for writing tools that work with the language. What I've seen from go's tooling today: a very crude debugger and zero IDE support. The bar for "good tooling" in 2013 is quite a bit higher than it was in 1999.
- coolsunglasses 14y agoIDE support comes in the form of the gocode daemon. Works fine with Emacs, Vim, Eclipse, etc. There's a Golang-specific IDE but it isn't very fancy. Most people just use the Gocode daemon with their editor of choice.