Go Wiki: Editors and IDEs for Go

Popular

The Go Developer Survey showed these as the most popular editors.

• Visual Studio Code: Free & open source IDE by Microsoft. Visual Studio Code supports Go syntax highlighting out of the box. Additional features are provided by the official vscode-go plugin.

• GoLand: JetBrains’s cross-platform, fully featured Go IDE (commercial). Free for students, teachers, open-source developers, and user-groups (see details). Also available as part of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

• Vim & Neovim: Vi Improved. There are a number of plugins available that make editing Go code easier.

  • The vim-go plugin includes misc/vim and has many other new improvements.
  • The Syntastic plugin gives instant feedback on compile errors
  • The tagbar plugin uses Gotags, above, to show an outline of the current file
  • A vim compiler plugin for syntax checking
  • A vim-godef plugin integrates with the ‘godef’ tool, above
  • A vim-go-extra is vim plugin based on misc/vim in go repository. This works fine on windows too!
  • The go-ide is a Neovim configuration file that ties go related plugins together making autocomplete, auto-importing, snippets, code formatting, and file search/browsing easier.
  • govim is an LSP-driven vim plugin for Go development, written in Go using Vim8’s channel support.

• Emacs: Extensible and customizable text editor. It has generic LSP support that works well with gopls, the official Go language server.

  • LSP Mode provides LSP support with a batteries-included approach, with many integrations enabled “out of the box” and several additional behaviors provided by lsp-mode itself.
  • Eglot provides LSP support with a minimally-intrusive approach, focusing on smooth integration with other established packages. It provides a few of its own eglot- commands but no additional keybindings by default.
  • Mode file maintained at https://github.com/dominikh/go-mode.el.
  • GoFlyMake Flymake-style syntax checking for Go
  • go-errcheck.el Errcheck integration for Emacs
  • flycheck-metalinter Flycheck integration for go-metalinter utility
  • go-playground Local playground inside Emacs

Less popular

These editors are less popular, and may have less modern Go support. In particular, they may not support Go modules.

• Atom: JavaScript-based editor from GitHub. Go support at go-plus
• BBEdit: free text editor for macOS (with paid upgrade for pro features).
  • Go support available with the Go-bbpackage module including syntax highlighting, clippings, ctags standard library completion, and tools
• Brackets: a modern, open source text editor that understands web design.
  • go-ide Go support with autocompletion through gocode.
• Chime: Capable. Focused. Fast. A Go editor for macOS.
• CodeLobster IDE Smart free cross-platform IDE with built-in Go support
• CodePerfect 95: A blazing fast IDE for Go.
• jEdit: open-source, cross-platform text editor written in Java. Syntax-highlighting file available.
• Kate Kate is an advanced, cross-platform text editor developed by KDE, with Go support out-of-the-box.
• Komodo IDE Powerful cross-platform IDE with built-in Go support
• Komodo Edit Powerful cross-platform text editor, Go-lang support available via plugin
• LiteIDE: A simple, open source and cross-platform Go IDE
• Micro: A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor written in Go
  • Go language support (gofmt and goimports) via plugin
• Notepad++: Free source code editor for Windows.
  • notepadplus-go Syntax highlighting, functions list panel (for code browsing), code completion for keywords & builtins.
  • The GOnpp plugin (available via Notepad++’s built-in Plugin Manager) provides code completion (requires gocode), function calltips, goimports integration, and keyboard shortcuts for common go commands. [sources, binaries].
  • GoAutocomplete is another code completion plugin.
• Nova: Native Mac code editor.
  • Go Language Definition for Nova — Go syntax highlighting and interface with the Language Server Protocol (LSP) using Google’s official gopls language server for Go (if installed).
  • Go Tools — Run goimports on save or via a command. Syntax highlighting for Go.
• Source Insight: Commercial programming editor & code browser with built-in live analysis for C, C++, C#, Java, and more; helping you understand large projects.
  • golang.xclf is a Custom Language file adding syntax formatting and some parsing support to Source Insight for Go language.
• Sublime Text: Commercial text editor.
  • (Sublime Text 4 only) LSP + gopls is a plugin collection with IDE-like features available.
  • GoSublime is a plugin collection with IDE-like features available.
  • Golang Build is the official Sublime Text package for Go build system integration.
• Textadept: Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor. Supports Go syntax highlighting out of the box.
• TextMate: Commercial text editor for macOS. Source code available under the GPLv3. Bundle for Go available.
• Zed: Code at the speed of thought.

Cloud Based IDEs

• Cloud9: claims full Go support.
• Gitpod: GitHub integrated cloud IDE with full Go support.

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