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Dominik Honnef edited this page Feb 1, 2020 · 100 revisions

IDEs and Plugins for Go

  • Atom: JavaScript-based editor from GitHub. Go support at go-plus
  • BBedit: commercial text editor for macOS.
    • Basic Go support available with the module
    • Go-bbpackage with clippings, ctags standard library completion, better syntax highlighting, and tools
  • Brackets: a modern, open source text editor that understands web design.
    • go-ide Go support with autocompletion through gocode.
  • Eclipse IDE: a very popular, open-source, cross-platform IDE. GoClipse plugin enables Go support. This project was abandoned in 2017 and may not work with modern editions of Eclipse.
  • Emacs: Extensible and customizable text editor.
  • Gedit: Official text editor for the GNOME Desktop. Plugin for Auto-Completion and Code-Formatting available.
  • Geany: Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. Supports Go syntax highlighting out of the box.
  • Gocode: An autocompletion daemon that includes support for emacs and vim.
  • godef: Prints the source location of definitions in Go programs. Integrates with acme, emacs, vim and SublimeText.
  • GoLand: JetBrains's cross-platform, fully featured Go IDE (commercial). Free for students, teachers, open-source developers, and user-groups (see details).
  • Gotags: Generates ctags-compatible tag files
  • GoWorks: NetBeans based open source Go IDE.
  • IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate: Cross-platform, polyglot IDE (commercial). Free for students, teachers, open-source developers, and user-groups (see details).
  • jEdit: open-source, cross-platform text editor written in Java. Syntax-highlighting file available.
  • joe: JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Supports Go syntax highlighting out of the box.
  • 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
  • Lime Text: Developed in Go, aims to be a Free and open-source software alternative to Sublime Text. Not quite ready yet but welcoming contributions to the progress. https://github.com/limetext/lime
  • LiteIDE: A simple, open source and cross-platform Go IDE
  • 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.
  • Source Insight: Commercial programming editor & code browser with built-in live analysis for C, C++, C#, Java, and more; helping you understand large projects.
  • Sublime Text: Commercial text editor.
    • 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.
  • TextWrangler: free little brother of BBedit. Both the Go module and Go.bbpackage for BBedit work for TextWrangler as well.
  • 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.
  • Visual Studio: Commercial IDE by Microsoft for Windows. A Go Language Support extension is available for Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and 2013 Pro, Enterprise, and Community.
  • 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 vscode-go plugin.
  • GNU Nano: a simple .nanorc for GNU Nano ("pico").
  • xkick: Commercial tool by Wirecog to bring limited Golang support to Xcode 11.
  • Zeus: Commercial IDE for Go (Windows or Linux with Wine).

Cloud Based IDEs

  • Cloud9: "blank" template includes go 1.7.1.
  • CodeEnv: A cloud-based IDE. Supports go1.5 out of the box, which is not something I'd describe as "full Go support".
  • Gitpod: GitHub integrated cloud IDE with full Go support.
  • Wide: A Web-based IDE for Teams using Go programming language/Golang.

Other environments such as Xcode and Kate also had minor support checked in to the Go tree up until Go 1.3. If you want these, search the standard repository's history. Here is a link: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/release-branch.go1.3/misc

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