So it seems that GoLand's value is a function of how much you're willing to put into it.įinally, I wanted to point out that /u/dlsniper - who works for JetBrains as a developer advocate on the GoLand project - has been responsive to people's comments here and has tried to offer good advice and useful information. In my case, I'm willing to do the work if it'll get me better productivity output (and easier debugging) in the long run.
Sure, it makes no sense to pay for a tool that has features you're not going to bother to use, so if you're using VS Code now and you're happy with that, or have any form of resistance to putting in the time and work to learn how to use the more advanced features that GoLand provides, yeah that comparison wouldn't make any sense for you and it would be a waste of money. "Why pay when you can get the same features from a free editor with plugins?" - This is a point that keeps coming up in conversations, and I think the people making this point are likely not using, or willing to put in the work to learn how to use, GoLand's more advanced features.
Guess we'll have to see how that turns out. My development laptop does only have 16GB of memory though, so I'm a little concerned about working on larger projects, though.
That was over a decade ago though, and so far from what small projects I've worked in in GoLand, it hasn't been a problem. "It's Java so it's a slow, fat resource hog!" - Yeah, I've tried JetBrains stuff before (RubyMine) and I did have some issues and concerns with how "bloated" it felt. No hate on VS Code here whatsoever (it's a good editor) I'm just looking beyond my needs and more to my wants, and willing to pay a reasonable amount for that. Having used VSCode myself, and being "meh" level of satisfied with it, I'm certainly open to paying for something that gives me more than what VS Code does. The latter being free and having, from what I've seen both as a user of VS Code and in these comments, "pretty good" Golang support.
Update Wow, 167 comments as I write this, I was not expecting nearly this level of discussion! For those of you visiting us from the future via Google (hi!), here's a few points to sum up.Ĭomparisons with Visual Studio Code - A frequent comparison is GoLand vs. Before I get too far into this, or consider buying, I'm curious what other developers think: have you tried GoLand, and if so, what was your experience with it? Worth the investment, or a waste of money? I'm just now starting the evaluation period. I'm looking at the GoLand IDE by JetBrains right now to help make me more productive in building Go applications.