I'm using Emacs. Mainly because I'm proficient in Emacs and found it good fitting into my needs. If you want to argue that Emacs is not the IDE because it does

I'm using Emacs. Mainly because I'm proficient in Emacs and found it good fitting into my needs. If you want to argue that Emacs is not the IDE because it doesn't has feature X, then please not that it has great integrated internal environment. For Go "IDE" features check this: http://dominik.honnef.co/posts/2013/03/writing_go_in_emacs/ http://dominik.honnef.co/posts/2013/03/writing_go_in_emacs/ Vim has similar features.