Go tooling will likely get better as time allows IDEs / plugins to be written. It remains to be seen if the Go language will grow significantly from one major

Go tooling will likely get better as time allows IDEs / plugins to be written. It remains to be seen if the Go language will grow significantly from one major release to the next, and how frequent any such changes will be. (it might stagnate, as well) Sun / Oracle have demonstrated the last 10 years that they do not intend to improve the Java language itself (COBOL with separate compilation, user defined types, field accessors and subclassing is good enough for all!), but will only keep rolling out new "Enterprise" libraries / frameworks.