10 Elegant Go Development Tools You Should Try

1. Go Revive

Go Revive is a fast, configurable, extensible linter for Go that can replace golint. It runs up to 6× faster, supports TOML configuration, and offers many more rules.

2. Goland

Goland is a Go IDE from JetBrains, known for high‑quality IDEs such as PhpStorm and PyCharm. It is a commercial product that requires a license; users often look for cracks.

3. Go Callvis

Go Callvis visualizes call graphs of Go programs via an interactive HTTP server. According to its GitHub description, it helps understand code structure, especially in large projects.

4. IntelliJ + Go plugin

The classic IntelliJ IDEA can be extended with a Go plugin, providing compilation, debugging, syntax highlighting, code completion, and dependency management for Go.

5. Gaia

Gaia is an open‑source automation platform built on HashiCorp’s go‑plugin and gRPC. It is lightweight, fast, and developer‑friendly, with a smooth UI and a Go‑based core, but the alpha version is not recommended for critical workloads.

6. LiteIDE

LiteIDE is a free, dedicated Go IDE that offers all essential development features.

7. Realize

Realize accelerates and improves the Go developer workflow by automating tasks, integrating third‑party tools, defining custom CLI commands, and hot‑reloading projects on changes.

8. Eclipse + Go plugin

Eclipse can support Go through the GoEclipse plugin, adding the full set of open‑source IDE capabilities for Go development.

9. Gotests

Gotests simplifies writing Go tests. It generates table‑driven tests from function signatures and offers plugins for Emacs, Vim, Atom, VS Code, IntelliJ Goland, and Sublime Text 3.

10. VS Code + Go plugin

VS Code, with the Go extension, provides a lightweight, open‑source development environment that supports most languages, integrates with Git, and offers a fast, simple Go workflow.