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IDE/Text Editor Recommendations for Go Development on Linux (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! My question is basically what the title says. I'm searching for an IDE/text editor for Go development and am wondering if anybody knows an alternative to these. Here is the list of software I tried:

I've tried NeoVim but I really don't want to waste time doing text-based configuration and messing with extensions just to get some basic features working.
I tried VSCodium but it doesn't exist in my system software repositories (I'm currently on Chimera Linux), and the flatpak version can't run any system commands.
GoLand and Sublime Text are proprietary & paid.

It seems the market for IDEs is pretty small, so I wouldn't really be surprised if nothing existed that fit these criteria, but thanks for any answers in advance!

Edit: I've settled with Lite-XL which seems to be a great editor. Thanks for all of your great recommendations!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use lite-xl, it has been very good, but I'm not a Go developer though.

They also release an appimage and I just did a quick test on a alpine container and it works, so it should work on Chimera as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

lite-xl seems very interesting, but sadly I wasn't able to launch it on Chimera Linux (I get the error cannot execute command "./LiteXL-v2.1.5-x86_64.AppImage": No such file or directory on any shell I try to launch it with). Is this a simple problem I can fix, or should I run it with Distrobox?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's interesting that it doesn't work, iirc the biggest difference of chimera is that it uses musl like alpine does.

Can you extract the appimage with --appimage-extract flag and run the AppRun that's inside of it directly? Or that also fails?

Isn't lite-xl in your distro repo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

nvm I just noticed that the issue is that I had the gcompat package installed in alpine, which fixes that issue you just had, I don't know if chimera has something similar to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Installing gcompat worked and Lite-XL is running now. Thanks!