rules_go

Alternatively, you could use Bazel[1], and automatically generate most of your build rules with Gazelle[2]. This would allow you to extend your build system beyond what's available via "go build", while avoiding the well-known pitfalls of Makefiles (config complexity, reproducibility, etc.) [1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go [2] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-gazelle

Editor integrations that aren’t aware of build systems are a huge issue. Without awareness into the build system, its basically all just guesswork. For languages like Go and Rust, this is partly solved by putting tooling into the language and standardizing the build system. But even for languages that have build systems, there’s reasons to use other build systems. As far as I know, very few build systems used in the open world have readily available integration with tooling. However, I think this is temporary. As an example, Bazel and Go should play well together in the near future: https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/issues/512 Hopefully, other languages will make mechanisms for code intelligence to integrate with build systems. This is especially important if you want a good developer experience across multiple programming languages.