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IDE/Text Editor Recommendations for Go Development on Linux (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] Presi300 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By chimera Linux, do you mean the gaming one or this one?

Just curious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I meant the latter. I don't really like systemd and I loved FreeBSD for its simplicity but also can't use it on bare metal because of a lack of drivers, so this seemed like a great option.

[–] Presi300 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow, it's actually daily driveable? Mind linking me the installation docs, I can't seem to find em...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup! The handbook is here.

[–] Presi300 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I'm amazed at how pain-free the whole installation/setup process is. Everything sorta just worked. Though, I'm struggling a bit, trying to make zram service with dinit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't setup zram but just went for a swap partition and specified it in fstab, so I'm not sure how that works really. There are a few issues open in GitHub about it but there seems to be no activity on them.