LiteIDE VS godevcontainer

Not common, but worth a mention: I've been using LiteIDE (https://github.com/visualfc/liteide/releases/latest) since Atom + Go dev ceased development.

There is liteide too: https://github.com/visualfc/liteide Is not super amazing but it does the job and since is purely for Go it has a few nice features. And it's very lightweight!

I mostly use VS Code, too (or rather VSCodium), but also recommend you try LiteIDE as it's exceptionally fast.

If this is the kind of thing you are interested in, I would strongly recommend LiteIDE:

http://liteide.org/en/

https://github.com/visualfc/liteide/releases

It's actively developed, FOSS (LGPL), native C++ (Qt), runs on Windows/macOS/Linux, supports go.mod, and uses gocode/gotools for intellisense instead of gopls. It has integrated debugging, go to definition/usages, and some refactoring support.

"technically" https://github.com/visualfc/liteide as that's an IDE

Installing the Go extension in VScode should prompt you to install what's needed. Otherwise you can use https://github.com/qdm12/godevcontainer ;)

If you have Docker installed and use VScode, you could try https://github.com/qdm12/godevcontainer which sets up your dev environment in a container so it's more reproducible.

I am the maintainer of godevcontainer which is a VSCode development container for Go.

VSCode + Docker using my image https://github.com/qdm12/godevcontainer will make your setup easy and reproducible for Go. I use it everywhere all the time.

If you have Docker installed and VScode you could use my development container qmcgaw/godevcontainer, I use it for every of my Go projects pretty much and it's sort of portable.

Jokes aside, yeah I do develop code for about everything inside development container (example)

Although I thought part 3 would be about dockerizing your Go dev environment, as in your workspace. I made and maintain godevcontainer to do that with Docker and use it all the time, for anyone curious.

Plus you can run your dev environment in a container (or remotely on a machine over ssh) which isn't really the case for Intellij. I use https://github.com/qdm12/godevcontainer with vscode.