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While I neither love nor hate Go - I'm really confused about "Go gets tooling right". Is it mostly about the built-in gofmt and compiling to binary? Dependency management is far from right, for example, and so are stuff like hot code reloading, remote debugging, containerized development, etc. How does Go get tooling right compared to, say node/npm or java?

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Tooling in regards to formatting: I guess you get to appreciate it when using gofmt automatically with your editor, eg. with Go extension for Visual Studio Code or vim-go.

Turns out pretty much as he says (see given example at play.golang.org). You just type in the style you always have, but with the certainty that in the end it will be the same as the other's, easy to read, easy to maintain, and uncontroversial in terms of formatting. You could agree on google-java-format, I guess. But also potentially waste plenty of time on the decision itself :-) compared to a dictate and tool originating from the language itself.

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