liteide

>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.

I 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

LiteIDE[1] has build in Go debugger. [1] https://github.com/visualfc/liteide

I 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