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Interesting. I have used IntelliJ for Java for as long as I can remember and can't imagine using anything else. For JS and Go I use VSCode. I wonder if it's just what I started with and am used to. I've tried to use Intellij a couple of times for Go, but end up back on VSCode.

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I dont know how you’re productive with VS Code and Go... I watch my coworkers live code with it sometimes and they are struggling. The lang server crashes constantly and stuff like autoimports or code complete barely works. I sometimes want to scream while watching them struggle.

The quality is really getting better but it is my experience that you still have to restart the language server (or the integration?) multiple times per hour on any non-trivial project. It is frustrating but it also becomes a habit to quickly reach out to that shortcut in case completion, formatting or intellisense randomly stops working.

It is hard to complain about free tools though. For a Free tool, VSCode, gopls and the Go extensions are great.

If you want more stability, polish and features, pay the $8/month for Goland?

I've read about those issues, and used to get them occasionally, but haven't really had them in a long time. Maybe my projects aren't large enough to cause any issues?

Be sure they're updating. There's no prompt or anything that I've seen in my environment to do so.

It's still not perfect but my experience doesn't match that.

I think only recently did the gopls become turned on by default for the Go plugin for VS Code. I've been using it for years and have never had any major issues.

Been using it daily for +1year and that doesn't sound like my experience at all.

Really? Never had issues personally

Same pretty much the same for JetBrains stuff. Constant screaming about how to configure their autoformatter compatible to prettifier for specific settings. Not supporting required configs out of the box. And build and IDE often live in completely different worlds. For example, project moodel at gradle and at IDEA is completely different and IDEA one is much more limited. And so on.

Android Studio could hang whole mac while "indexing" and often need to "reset caches and restart" while works just fine in VS Code.

> Constant screaming about how to configure their autoformatter compatible to prettifier for specific setting.

Assuming you mean “prettier” rather than prettifier (which a cursory Google did not show up as being a popular thing), the way to do this is to add a prettier config block to a package.json or a .prettierrc file, and then click “yes” when the IDE asks you “use code format based on prettier config”.

I did this not more than 10 minutes before writing this comment, on whatever the latest (shipping) version of IDEA available with whatever version of prettier came from `npm install` this morning - may save you a few mins next time the IDE is screaming at you.

I'm the same way. Java/Kotlin in IDEA, front-end (js/ts/css) in VSCode, and Go can be either but usually VSCode. I don't really want/need more than what VSCode provides for it.

For Ruby, I'm lost without RubyMine--I work on a huge codebase and lean on the superfast search (with default "*.rb, !*test*" files) a lot, usually restricted to a project subfolder.

I'm really glad they renamed Gogland to GoLand--gland is weird (unless maybe I'm doing Monads in Haskell or something).

I work on a large rails codebase as well but within a docker container doing emulation because ARM. How does RubyMine perform then? Last time I tried it felt sluggish.

Do you mean the search itself or other parts? Quite possible that I've become accustomed to the parts that are slower being used to IDEA. e.g. I accept the 'indexing' operation sometimes on startup or the now rare garbage collection pauses.

Goland is great if you have IntelliJ muscle memory, I haven't tried using IntelliJ directly for Go though, Imagine it's probably sub-optimal.

You do have to pay for Goland also.

I love Goland, and it's honestly one of the products that I very much like to pay for. You can eventually pay a one time fee and use it forever (without updates).

I'm also using it for Rust, but it's missing CLion's powerful debugger UI - but I think that gdb is good enough :-)

That’s how every JetBrains IDE subscription works, though. If you pay for a year, you get the version at the start of that year for perpetuity.

The Rust plugin for IDEA Ultimate allows for debugging. I've used it while trying to contribute to open source software.

If you have IntelliJ ultimate, Goland is installable via the Go plugin for free. I use IntelliJ for go/js/python using their plugins and they work as well as the native apps (pycharm, webstorm, goland). Although it is a bit tougher to configure because you treat things more as modules.

I would (and do) use goland directly, but i think intellij handles the basics. I only use intellij for rust, and it does well enough there as well

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