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<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>

<p>
  This document lists commonly used editor plugins and IDEs from the Go ecosystem
  that make Go development more productive and seamless.
  A comprehensive list of editor support and IDEs for Go development is available at
  <a href="http://golang.org/wiki/IDEsAndTextEditorPlugins">the wiki</a>.
</p>

<h2 id="options">Options</h2>
<p>
The Go ecosystem provides a variety of editor plugins and IDEs to enhance your day-to-day
editing, navigation, testing, and debugging experience.
</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/fatih/vim-go">Vim Go</a>: a plugin for Vim to provide Go programming language support</li>
<li><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lukehoban.Go">Visual Studio Code Go</a>:
an extension for Visual Studio Code to provide support for the Go programming language</li>
<li><a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/go">Gogland</a>: Gogland is distributed either as a standalone IDE
or as a plugin for the IntelliJ Platform IDEs</li>
</ul>

<p>
Note that these are only a few top solutions; a more comphensive
community-maintained list of
<a href="https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/IDEsAndTextEditorPlugins">IDEs and text editor plugins</a>
is available at the Wiki.
</p>

<p>
Each development environment integrates a number of Go-specific tools.
The following feature matrix lists and compares the most significant features.
</p>

<table class="features-matrix">
  <tr>
    <th></th>
    <th><img title="Vim Go" src="/doc/editors/vimgo.png"><br>Vim Go</th>
    <th><img title="Visual Studio Code" src="/doc/editors/vscodego.png"><br>Visual Studio Code Go</th>
    <th><img title="Gogland" src="/doc/editors/gogland.png"><br>Gogland</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="feature-row" colspan="4">Editing features</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Build and run from the editor/IDE</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Autocompletion of identifers (variable, method, and function names)</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Autocompletion based on type</td>
    <td class="no">No</td>
    <td class="no">No</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Rename identifiers</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Auto format, build, vet, and lint on save</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes<sup>1</sup></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Auto insert import paths and remove unused on save</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes<sup>2</sup></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Auto generate JSON, XML tags for struct fields</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="feature-row" colspan="4">Navigation features</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Display documentation inline, or open godoc in browser</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Switch between <code>*.go</code> and <code>*_test.go</code> file</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jump to definition and referees</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Look up for interface implementations</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Search for callers and callees</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="feature-row" colspan="4">Testing and debugging features</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Debugger support</td>
    <td class="no">No</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Run a single test case, all tests from file, or all tests from a package</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Auto generate tests for packages, files and identifiers</td>
    <td class="no">No</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="no">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Debug tests</td>
    <td class="no">No</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Display test coverage</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
    <td class="yes">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="download">
    <td></td>
    <td><a href="https://github.com/fatih/vim-go">Install<a/></td>
    <td><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lukehoban.Go">Install<a/></td>
    <td><a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/go">Install<a/></td>
  </tr>
</table>

<p>
<sup>1</sup>: Possible when enabled via Settings &gt; Go &gt; On Save, <code>go</code> <code>vet</code> and <code>golint</code> are available via plugins. Also runs tests on save if configured.
<br>
<sup>2</sup>: Additionally, user input can disambiguate when two or more options are available.
</p>

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