MFmfashby·Aug 13, 2023
Go specific IDE: https://github.com/visualfc/liteide
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liteide
LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.
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LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
12 sourcesIf 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.
In CodePerfect 95 – A fast IDE for GoTry https://github.com/visualfc/liteide for Golang. Also,you can try emacs.
In The Era of Visual Studio CodeIs Qt sufficient? I think it does a great job of native behaviours on macOS (certainly better than Electron).
LiteIDE is a fast, native, FOSS IDE for Go: https://github.com/visualfc/liteide/releases/tag/x36.2
It supports highlighting, autocompletion, jump to definition, refactoring, cgo, vet, etc for both module and non-module projects.
I use this on Windows and Linux and prefer it over vscode - the tooling integration always seem to work more reliably for me,
In Chime – A Go Editor for macOSLight-weight cross-platform IDE for Go
1 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/visualfc/liteide exists with, basically, many of the same things as you see people augment vim, etc. with (autocomplete, format on save, etc.) but a GUI editor. It has interactive debugging, but I don't use it so I dunno how it is. I can't promise you'll like it, but I dig it for some uses and it's there. The GUI itself seems to be maintained by one developer and as such it is unlikely to ever have full feature parity with Visual Studio. :)
In The State of Go: Where we are in February 2016Checkout LiteIDE: https://github.com/visualfc/liteide
Binary downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/liteide/files
In Get Your Development Team Started With Go>The second big gripe is that Golang has neither an IDE nor a REPL.
The IDE part is not true at all, why do people keep saying this? LiteIDE (aka golangide) works great, I use it all day everyday. It has syntax highlighting, autocomplete, gofmting, building, debugging, etc and is very lightweight.
Downloads: https://code.google.com/p/golangide/downloads/list
Source: https://github.com/visualfc/liteide
As for the merit if REPL over something like the go playground (http://play.golang.org/) or a debugger, I can't say. Most of the code I wrote before Go was C/C++/C#/Java.
In Golang Diaries II second the recommendation for LiteIDE
More common main page: http://code.google.com/p/liteide/
Downloads: http://code.google.com/p/golangide/downloads/list
Code: https://github.com/visualfc/liteide
In Go 1.1 beta 1 ReleasedLiteIDE[1] has build in Go debugger.
[1] https://github.com/visualfc/liteide
In Writing Web Applications in GoI think students always complain the first couple times they are forced to learn new languages, but this is an important skill for them to master.
There were several student complaints about the lack of an IDE or debugger. These tools do exist: I use LiteIDE, with syntax highlighting, code autocomplete and built in Go debugging everyday. Perhaps the professor was not aware of LiteIDE, but his students could have used Google.
http://code.google.com/p/liteide/
https://github.com/visualfc/liteide
Go also has great built-in profiling support: http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html
Installing Go is easy, you can download it as an archive or use your package manager:
http://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list
aptitude install golang-go
Also even installing Go from source is easy:
cd ~/
hg clone -u release https://code
Read the rest
.google.com/p/go
cd ~/go/src/
./all.bash
I think the hardest part is the environment variables, but these are well documented.