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IDE/Text Editor Recommendations for Go Development on Linux

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!

rwdf ,

I use Neovim, specifically LazyVim. It’s super easy to get up and running with Go.

hasecilu ,
@hasecilu@lemm.ee avatar

I really love how LazyVim have support for a lot of languages as Extras. Once I needed Go formatting so, installed Go extra, restarted NeoVim and all was ready, in less than a minute!

thayer , (edited )

Distrobox will resolve your issue with VSCode and then some. Run archlinux, debian or whatever you want as a container. Then, install VSCode/VSCodium (and any other apps that Chimera lacks) inside the container OS. This will keep your development environment containerized and safely away from your host OS.

Boxscape ,
@Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You could consider something like LazyVim installed on top of Nvim so you don’t have to configure it from scratch.

namingthingsiseasy ,

+1, I would recommend neovim with lazyvim. The documentation is excellent, and it’s very easy to set up.

www.lazyvim.org/installation

EmasXP ,

There’s also LiteIDE

possiblylinux127 ,

I use VIM but I am not a Go developer

KindaABigDyl ,
@KindaABigDyl@programming.dev avatar

You can use VS Code and Vim/Neovim for any language, as well as document writing and basic text editing. Just search for Go plugins

It shouldn’t be hard to use either. If it is, you’re doing something wrong probably

unn ,

Helix or GNU Emacs, you can’t go wrong

Presi300 ,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

By chimera Linux, do you mean the gaming one or this one?

Just curious

fernlike3923 OP ,
@fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works avatar

I meant the latter. I don’t really like systemd and I loved FreeBSD for its simplicity but also can’t use it on bare metal because of a lack of drivers, so this seemed like a great option.

Presi300 ,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

Wow, it’s actually daily driveable? Mind linking me the installation docs, I can’t seem to find em…

fernlike3923 OP ,
@fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yup! The handbook is here.

Presi300 ,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

Damn, I’m amazed at how pain-free the whole installation/setup process is. Everything sorta just worked. Though, I’m struggling a bit, trying to make zram service with dinit.

fernlike3923 OP ,
@fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works avatar

I didn’t setup zram but just went for a swap partition and specified it in fstab, so I’m not sure how that works really. There are a few issues open in GitHub about it but there seems to be no activity on them.

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