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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!

EmasXP ,

There’s also LiteIDE

rjek ,

Helix. It’s modal like Vim but the defaults just work, and a quick “hx --health” will list every mode and what package you need to install for the language server.

adespoton ,

GVim is available pretty much everywhere? And it’s infinitely customizable.

It does have a learning curve, but then you get to use that knowledge for the rest of your life.

fernlike3923 OP ,
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I’m going to have to take a look at that tomorrow since it has become pretty late here. Although thanks for the suggestion!

adespoton ,

I’ve been using vim/GVim for over 30 years; with only minimal tweaks I’ve used it with maybe 15 different programming languages/compilers, a few of which needed custom configurations written to do anything useful.

While everyone else is struggling to get on with the IDE du jour, I just get stuff done without having to learn anything new other than a new syntax and library set.

Samueru ,

I use lite-xl, it has been very good, but I’m not a Go developer though.

They also release an appimage and I just did a quick test on a alpine container and it works, so it should work on Chimera as well.

fernlike3923 OP ,
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lite-xl seems very interesting, but sadly I wasn’t able to launch it on Chimera Linux (I get the error cannot execute command “./LiteXL-v2.1.5-x86_64.AppImage”: No such file or directory on any shell I try to launch it with). Is this a simple problem I can fix, or should I run it with Distrobox?

Samueru ,

That’s interesting that it doesn’t work, iirc the biggest difference of chimera is that it uses musl like alpine does.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/41424822-3bc9-4a05-95c6-0ee3fcc533d9.png

Can you extract the appimage with –appimage-extract flag and run the AppRun that’s inside of it directly? Or that also fails?

Isn’t lite-xl in your distro repo?

Samueru ,

nvm I just noticed that the issue is that I had the gcompat package installed in alpine, which fixes that issue you just had, I don’t know if chimera has something similar to it.

fernlike3923 OP ,
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Installing gcompat worked and Lite-XL is running now. Thanks!

kata1yst ,

Try Lunarvim. It’s NeoVim, but ships as a fully functional IDE with easy customization if needed. Honestly I basically just changed the theme, font, and added a preview scrollbar.

Blazingly fast, extremely functional, endless customization if desired.

Presi300 ,
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By chimera Linux, do you mean the gaming one or this one?

Just curious

fernlike3923 OP ,
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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 ,
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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 ,
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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 ,
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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.

possiblylinux127 ,

I use VIM but I am not a Go developer

EarthShipTechIntern ,

Atom?

emax_gomax ,

Is that still being recommended? Last I heard it was eol, no longer getting feature changes or improvements and was basically superceded by vscode.

EarthShipTechIntern ,

I’m out of the loop. Thanks for filling me in.

Daeraxa ,

Yes and no. The original project is dead but we forked it and continue to maintain and improve it as Pulsar

Daeraxa ,

Pulsar is the current maintained fork of that project, we forked it before it got shut down and are actively developing it,

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