I think for experienced devs, a text editor is quicker for dynamic languages (less experienced people will get good mileage from an IDE). Go is sort of weird in that it reads like a dynamic language, so a text editor is Good Enough, while the static compiler helps to catch the sort of bugs that float up when you're doing manual (and hence, human-error-prone) refactoring work, like changing the type of something, which IDEs tend to automate for you before compile time. That's why GoSublime really is all you need for Go, as far as I can tell. (NOTE: I've not written anything like even a medium project in Go).