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Andrew Gerrand5bc444d2014-12-10 11:35:11 +11001# IDEs and Plugins for Go
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Alan Yee6f0ed7f2018-01-17 21:49:09 -08003 * **[Atom](https://atom.io/)**: JavaScript-based editor from GitHub. Go support at [go-plus](https://github.com/joefitzgerald/go-plus)
4 * **[BBedit](https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/)**: commercial text editor for macOS.
5 * Basic Go support available with the [module](https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/)
Andrew Carter6f6fd472015-08-21 10:37:18 -07006 * [Go-bbpackage](https://github.com/ascarter/go-bbpackage) with clippings, ctags standard library completion, better syntax highlighting, and tools
Brenton Horne8c617022016-04-12 00:51:29 +10007 * **[Brackets](http://brackets.io)**: a modern, open source text editor that understands web design.
David Sánchez i Gregori88cc77c2015-03-01 09:18:35 +01008 * [go-ide](https://github.com/David5i6/Brackets-Go-IDE) Go support with autocompletion through gocode.
Alan Yee6f0ed7f2018-01-17 21:49:09 -08009 * **[Eclipse IDE](https://www.eclipse.org/)**: a very popular, open-source, cross-platform IDE. [GoClipse](https://goclipse.github.io/) plugin enables Go support.
Andrew Gerrand5bc444d2014-12-10 11:35:11 +110010 * **[Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)**: Extensible and customizable text editor.
11 * Mode file maintained at https://github.com/dominikh/go-mode.el.
12 * [GoFlyMake](https://github.com/dougm/goflymake) Flymake-style syntax checking for Go
13 * [go-errcheck.el](https://github.com/dominikh/go-errcheck.el) Errcheck integration for Emacs
Alexander I.Grafov9c7bdef2017-08-19 03:17:19 +030014 * [flycheck-metalinter](https://github.com/favadi/flycheck-gometalinter) Flycheck integration for go-metalinter utility
15 * [go-playground](https://github.com/grafov/go-playground) Local playground inside Emacs
Alan Yee6f0ed7f2018-01-17 21:49:09 -080016 * **[Gedit](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit)**: Official text editor for the GNOME Desktop. [Plugin for Auto-Completion and Code-Formatting available](https://bitbucket.org/fzzbt/go-gedit-plugin/).
17 * **[Geany](https://www.geany.org/)**: Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. Supports Go syntax highlighting out of the box.
Andrew Gerrand5bc444d2014-12-10 11:35:11 +110018 * **[Gocode](https://github.com/nsf/gocode)**: An autocompletion daemon that includes support for emacs and vim.
Sergey Mudrik3a823812016-03-18 18:35:42 +020019 * **[godef](https://github.com/rogpeppe/godef)**: Prints the source location of definitions in Go programs. Integrates with acme, emacs, vim and SublimeText.
Stefano Cavallaric9717172017-12-16 23:13:14 +010020 * **[GoLand](https://www.jetbrains.com/go/)**: Jetbrains Golang IDE (commercial)
Andrew Gerrand5bc444d2014-12-10 11:35:11 +110021 * **[Gotags](https://github.com/jstemmer/gotags)**: Generates ctags-compatible tag files
22 * **[GoWorks](http://tunnelvisionlabs.com/products/demo/goworks)**: [NetBeans](http://netbeans.org/) based open source Go IDE.
Alan Yee6f0ed7f2018-01-17 21:49:09 -080023 * **[IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/)**: Commercial cross-platform IDE.
24 * **[jEdit](http://www.jedit.org/)**: open-source, cross-platform text editor written in Java. [Syntax-highlighting file available](https://code.google.com/archive/p/go-stuff/source/default/source).
Vasya Poteryaiko018a4712015-10-31 16:48:16 +020025 * **[joe](http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/)**: JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Supports Go syntax highlighting out of the box.
Corey Daley439d80d2017-04-28 12:54:18 -040026 * **[Komodo IDE](https://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide)** Powerful cross-platform IDE with built-in Go support
27 * **[Komodo Edit](https://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit)** Powerful cross-platform text editor, Go-lang support available via [plugin](https://github.com/Komodo/komodo-go)
elloworld96e42572015-04-23 16:53:33 -050028 * **[Lime Text](http://limetext.org/)**: Developed in Go, aims to be a Free and open-source software alternative to Sublime Text. Not quite ready yet but welcoming contributions to the progress. https://github.com/limetext/lime
zhibinr525e6962015-03-16 20:59:32 +080029 * **[LiteIDE](https://github.com/visualfc/liteide)**: A simple, open source and cross-platform Go IDE
Andrew Gerrand5bc444d2014-12-10 11:35:11 +110030 * **[Notepad++](http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)**: Free source code editor for Windows.
31 * [notepadplus-go](https://github.com/chai2010/notepadplus-go) Syntax highlighting, functions list panel (for code browsing), code completion for keywords & builtins.
32 * The GOnpp plugin (available **via Notepad++'s built-in Plugin Manager**) provides code completion (requires gocode), function calltips, goimports integration, and keyboard shortcuts for common go commands. [[sources](https://github.com/tike/GOnpp), [binaries](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gonpp/files/)].
33 * [GoAutocomplete](https://github.com/steve-perkins/GoAutocomplete) is another code completion plugin.
Nathan Ostgardeea14692017-02-26 13:07:22 -080034 * **[Sublime Text](http://www.sublimetext.com/)**: Commercial text editor.
35 * [GoSublime](https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime) is a plugin collection with IDE-like features available.
36 * [Golang Build](https://github.com/golang/sublime-build) is the official Sublime Text package for Go build system integration.
Vasya Poteryaiko2dc9c6b2015-10-31 19:33:57 +020037 * **[Textadept](http://foicica.com/textadept/)**: Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor. Supports Go syntax highlighting out of the box.
Alan Yee6f0ed7f2018-01-17 21:49:09 -080038 * **[TextMate](http://macromates.com/)**: Commercial text editor for macOS. [Source code available](https://github.com/textmate/textmate) under the GPLv3. [Bundle for Go available](https://github.com/syscrusher/golang.tmbundle).
Andrew Gerrand5bc444d2014-12-10 11:35:11 +110039 * **[TextWrangler](http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/)**: free _little brother_ of BBedit. Both the Go module and Go.bbpackage for BBedit work for TextWrangler as well.
Zac Pullar-Strecker754a06b2016-04-22 13:27:28 +120040 * **[Vim](http://www.vim.org/)** & **[Neovim](https://neovim.io/)**: Vi Improved. There are a number of plugins available that make editing Go code easier.
Andrew Gerrand5bc444d2014-12-10 11:35:11 +110041 * The [vim-go](https://github.com/fatih/vim-go) plugin includes misc/vim and has many other new improvements.
42 * The [Syntastic](https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic) plugin gives instant feedback on compile errors
43 * The [tagbar](https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar) plugin uses Gotags, above, to show an outline of the current file
44 * A [vim compiler plugin](https://github.com/rjohnsondev/vim-compiler-go) for syntax checking
45 * A [vim-godef](https://github.com/dgryski/vim-godef) plugin integrates with the 'godef' tool, above
46 * A [vim-go-extra](https://github.com/vim-jp/vim-go-extra) is vim plugin based on misc/vim in go repository. This works fine on windows too!
Avelino26af6d22017-08-02 02:20:43 -030047 * A [vim-bootstrap](https://vim-bootstrap.com/) is generator provides a simple method of generating a .vimrc configuration for vim
Nathan Brownc9adbf92015-11-11 17:24:17 -070048 * **[Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com/)**: Commercial IDE by Microsoft for Windows. A [Go Language Support](https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bd7675ba-1bf5-4395-8c5a-4fc19dfc0d76) extension is available for Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and 2013 Pro, Enterprise, and Community.
Yaroslav Schubertcb271992016-09-15 14:53:41 +030049 * **[Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/)**: Free & open source IDE by Microsoft. Visual Studio Code supports Go syntax highlighting out of the box. Additional features are provided by the [vscode-go](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go) plugin.
Andrew Gerrand5bc444d2014-12-10 11:35:11 +110050 * **[GNU Nano](http://golang.cat-v.org/text-editors/nano/)**: a simple .nanorc for GNU Nano ("pico").
Keith Kim17bf0662015-07-07 12:05:01 -040051 * **[Zeus](http://www.zeusedit.com/go.html)**: Commercial IDE for Go (Windows or Linux with Wine).
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Ali Altun7d1a9152017-01-07 16:25:48 +010053## Cloud Base IDEs
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Jacob Gadikianc25a0e12017-03-04 05:51:25 +070055Currently Wide is the only "cloud IDE" that supports go version 1.8.
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Jacob Gadikian39db1f02017-03-04 05:57:16 +070057 * **[Cloud9](https://c9.io/)**: "blank" template includes go 1.7.1.
Jacob Gadikian63df3a42017-03-04 05:53:48 +070058 * **[CodeEnv](https://codeenv.com/)**: A cloud-based IDE. Supports go1.5 out of the box, which is not something I'd describe as "[full Go support](https://codeenv.com/env/codeenv/7/go/)".
Ali Altun7d1a9152017-01-07 16:25:48 +010059 * **[Wide](https://github.com/b3log/wide)**: A <b>W</b>eb-based <b>IDE</b> for Teams using Go programming language/Golang.
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Sergey Mudrik3a823812016-03-18 18:35:42 +020062Other environments such as Xcode and Kate also had minor support checked in to the Go tree up until Go 1.3. If you want these, search the standard repository's history. Here is a link: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/release-branch.go1.3/misc