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No, golang is just as easy to install and work with on vscode. Just install Go and the official Go plugin and you have an IDE experience complete with debugging, formatting, and intelligent autocomplete. It has nothing to do with vscode being written in JS.

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You didn't mention plugins, it seemed like not having to do anything besides installing the language and VSCode should be required.

In that case there are many functional languages with good IDE support. E.g. F# through Ionide.

Same applies to F#, a ML based language.

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