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:
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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.
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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.
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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!
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.
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 directoryon any shell I try to launch it with). Is this a simple problem I can fix, or should I run it with Distrobox?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.
Installing gcompat worked and Lite-XL is running now. Thanks!
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-extractflag and run the AppRun that’s inside of it directly? Or that also fails?Isn’t lite-xl in your distro repo?