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VS.Code + the go plugin is quite good. I recommend it to my team members who prefer GUI-based editors. VS.Code is surprisingly much faster than Atom even though they share the same electron editor.

I think vim + vim-go is still the best go editor if you know vim. It just works and it gets updated frequently.

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There's no such thing as the electron editor. Electron is just a framework for making desktop apps using the client-side layers of the Web stack. It's basically a a little bit more than a glorified Chromium install, minus the browser chrome.

The editors in VSCode and Atom are completely different implementations.

I use Jetbrain's IDEA with a Go plugin and it fits all my needs. Do you know how it compares to VS? Never got into VS myself and i'm hesitant to swap IDE's though I'd be willing to try if it's a significant improvement.

I've switched from PyCharm (based on the same IntelliJ Platform as IDEA) to VS Code, and it's so much faster to work with. That said, I've found that it's not nearly as good at all the code intelligence stuff as PyCharm is.

I've never used IntelliJ's Go tools, but VS Code is much better at that stuff in Go than Python. (I believe it uses third-party open-source tools in both cases; code intelligence for a statically typed language like Go is probably much simpler which probably helps.)

The best way to look at VS Code is as an IDE minus the 'integrated' bit - instead of having the core editor and UI bundled in with all the code intelligence stuff for a specific set of languages, it's a text editor with a code intelligence and debugger UI, that calls out to out-of-process plugins to do the heavy lifting.

Dynamic languages make good tooling very difficult. It makes it painful to transition from Go for hobbies to Python for work. :(

Most go-related plugins are reaching parity in that they mostly use the same background services and utilities to update the editor. My guess is Jetbrain's IDE has roughly the same features. FWIW, VS.code starts up much faster than WebStorm on my machine.

Good to know. When I switched from windows to ubuntu I saw WebStorm start-up improve 2-3x. Haven't tried VS.code yet but I've found JetBrains products to run very well on linux machines.

This is my setup of choice. It's absolutely fantastic.

> much faster than Atom

uggh! yes :) I tried checking out atom and installed the facebook extensions to see what the fuss was all about. It was so slow I could only successfully open it 50% of the time.

opens 50% of the time, every time

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