Hello! My question is basically what the title says. I’m searching for an IDE/text editor for Go development and am wondering if anybody knows an alternative to these. Here is the list of software I tried:

  • I’ve tried NeoVim but I really don’t want to waste time doing text-based configuration and messing with extensions just to get some basic features working.

  • I tried VSCodium but it doesn’t exist in my system software repositories (I’m currently on Chimera Linux), and the flatpak version can’t run any system commands.

  • GoLand and Sublime Text are proprietary & paid.

It seems the market for IDEs is pretty small, so I wouldn’t really be surprised if nothing existed that fit these criteria, but thanks for any answers in advance!

Edit: I’ve settled with Lite-XL which seems to be a great editor. Thanks for all of your great recommendations!

  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Distrobox will resolve your issue with VSCode and then some. Run archlinux, debian or whatever you want inside a container. Install VSCode/VSCodium and any other apps that Chimera lacks and they’ll run as if installed locally on your host PC. This keeps all of your development containerized and away from your host PC.