What makes you prefer GoLand over another editor with LSP integration? I don’t write much Go but I’m curious if it provides other features for when I inevitably learn it
Things I really enjoy about GoLand:
- Excellent flagging of syntax and type errors; excellent warnings about misspelled variable names, cues for shadowing of variables etc.
- Provides excellent guidance on following Go conventions such as comment structure, variable naming etc.
- Excellent autoimports (and guesses the pretty well) and autoformatting, which, combined with the flagging of errors/warnings ensures pretty seamless development, minimizing compile/run cycles for me (can't imagine how it would be with emacs, which has been my preferred editor for many previous languages).
- Nice refactoring support (but can get dicey when doing external symbols that end up affecting many packages).
- Great documentation tooltips that make it very easy to hop back and forth from callsites to definition sites. - Excellent omnisearch.
- Beautiful UI and UI elements (although I hear they are taking it in the VS Code direction of late, which will be a disaster).
- Fairly responsive and good at indexing large codebases, just works for the most part.