Over the past year I’ve been coding a lot in Go. Being used to working in mainly Java for the past 15 years I got used to shortcuts and other useful aids within Eclipse and IntelliJ. Don’t get me wrong I’m a big fan of Sublime but mainly use it for Markdown, Javascript and Python. I wanted try Go in one of the IDE’s I was familiar with.

First let’s try Eclipse

I immediately thought I would try it within Eclipse with the Eclipse Go plugin. My initial experience proved it was not ready for prime time. It had many errors in the console, standard eclipse delays and it was a pain setting up the Go path properly. [Read more…]