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IDE/Text Editor Recommendations for Go Development on Linux (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! My question is basically what the title says. I'm searching for an IDE/text editor for Go development and am wondering if anybody knows an alternative to these. Here is the list of software I tried:

I've tried NeoVim but I really don't want to waste time doing text-based configuration and messing with extensions just to get some basic features working.
I tried VSCodium but it doesn't exist in my system software repositories (I'm currently on Chimera Linux), and the flatpak version can't run any system commands.
GoLand and Sublime Text are proprietary & paid.

It seems the market for IDEs is pretty small, so I wouldn't really be surprised if nothing existed that fit these criteria, but thanks for any answers in advance!

Edit: I've settled with Lite-XL which seems to be a great editor. Thanks for all of your great recommendations!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Zed now has Linux support.

And then helix editor works with Go LSP, this is my current daily driver. Even without plugins, helix works better and manageable than vim/emacs. Only thing that doesn’t work is debugger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you don't mind, can you share your helix config?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure. https://gist.github.com/linusr/18cd6f8b0b059073460f0f3c322b8939

Includes both config & languages config.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

much appreciated, I just can't seem to get mine setup right