What do you use to write Go

Question

I know its a bit too early, but I've been trying out Go (Google's Programming Language) and its kindof annoying to write code in gedit.

So, my question: What do you use to experiment with Go?

Answer 1

Dropping in to post the obligatory vim answer.

Answer 2

vim or emacs? I haven't played around with Go yet, but those are the only editors I use when programming for myself.

Answer 3

under $GOROOT/misc there are syntax highlighting files for emacs, vim, xcode and kate. Using any of these editors should do.

Answer 4

I'll see your vim and raise you one emacs.

Answer 5

Someone has released a bundle for TextMate if you're on a Mac. (just search the Go Google Group discussions).

Answer 6

Notepad++ could probably work with some tweaking of the syntax file for C++.

To see the differences read Go For C++ Programmers

Answer 7

After searching for alternatives, I found this thread. Mr Perez created a syntax file for gtk sourceview, so that editors such as gedit, scribes etc. can have syntax highlighting for Go~

just copy this to /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/

Answer 8

Somebody in the #go-nuts irc channel has a Go syntax file for gedit, so I would ask there if you want that.

I personally use what Rob Pike and Russ Cox use: acme. And I know Ken Thompson still uses sam.

Edit: For those interested, I have created a page to collect Go syntax highlighting files for various text editors. If you have any that is not included there let me know and I'll be happy to add it.

Answer 9

Some info no-one has mentioned yet: The Go distribution comes with a program called gofmt which provides a standardized format for the language. You can run golfed Go through it and get clean output. See this example.

I am always using Emacs so I initially started thinking there would be no Go mode for Emacs and asked this question. Then a minute after I'd asked I had the notion to do find . -name "*.el" at the top of the Go source tree and was able to answer my own question. Some other people seem to have found the answer useful.

Answer 10

Personally I find the split-window capability of kate to be quite useful in go programming. (Ubuntu 10.4 LTS with the kate syntax highlight file added)

Hotei