What's the most commonly used IDE for golang development ?

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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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  1. vim-go

    Go development plugin for Vim

    With vim-go and snippets, neovim has almost the same functionality as GoLand

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. go.nvim

    G'day Nvimer, Joyful Gopher: Discover the Feature-Rich Go Plugin for Neovim

    point noted, thx. I have this link : https://github.com/ray-x/go.nvim

  4. dotfiles

    A modern Zsh/tmux, Vim and Homebrew centric setup for macOS and Linux (by coderabbitai)

    Neovim, I used Vs Code but I prefer Neovim. There's this open source repository that I've been using to set up neovim in my terminal. It makes life so much easier than installing plugins and stuff on other IDEs Check it out: https://github.com/fluxninja/dotfiles

  5. vscode-go

    Go extension for Visual Studio Code (by golang)

  6. LiteIDE

    LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.

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

  7. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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