What do you use to write Go [closed]

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

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

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

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 6

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.