Best Golang Tools And IDEs For Development In 2021
Tags: go, tooling
Published: 2021-04-01 07:02:39

Google’s Go programming language is gaining immense popularity among common users. It is a new language, considering modern architectures and made to be effective, competitive and simple. Go language is made to build low-level monolithic for Google and ultimately proved best suited to service-oriented architectures because of its easy deployment, productivity and scalability. Because of open-source, compiled programming language, Golang makes it easy for developers to create dependable, easy and proficient software. Golang reduces the amount of writing code and unique APIs without compromising performance. In the Golang development, some IDEs are well suited for Golang and are gaining popularity with its efficient features of the most popular programming languages. Here we will see best tools and IDEs for golang development. Before digging to it, let us see basics of ide.

#Best Golang Development Tools-
**1. Gonative-**
It helps to build Go Toolchains with the help of native libraries that can be easily cross-compiled. Gonative keeps the libraries updated by downloading binary distributions for each platform.

**2. Apicompat-**
Using this tool developers can detect exported declarations and incompatible changes in the background. One of the greatest advantage of this tool is that false positives can be avoided in Apicompat.

**3. Depth-**
With Depth, web developers can visualize and retrieve Go source code dependency trees.It can be used as a specific package within your project or as a standalone command-line app. You can add customizations by using the relevant flags on Tree before fixing it.

**4. Go Vendor-**
This tool works well with standard Vendor folder. Also it enables developers to copy current dependencies from $GOPATH with Go Vendor add or update. One can pull new dependencies or update current ones directly using Go Vendor fetch and transit legacy systems using Go Vendor migrate.

**5. Go-Callvis-**
This is a web development tool that enables visualization of Go program’s call graph using Graphviz’s dot format. It is helpful in developing large projects using complicated codebases. Also it helps to understand other developers’ code structures or recreate somebody else’s project. 

With Callvis, developers can concentrate on particular packages inside a program, group functions as per the package, and techniques according to the type and restrict packages to tailor path prefixes and neglect those which comprise them.

**6. Gosimple-**
This Golang linter concentrate to ease Go source code. It always targets the most recent Go version, so requires the Go version 1.6 or more. If there is a new Go launch, Gosimple will recommend the simplest and easiest technique to avoid complex structures.

#What Is IDE?
Software suite which includes all the tasks of programming in one app is called an Integrated Development Environment or IDE. It plays a role of single interface that includes; Code editor, automation tools, compiler and debugger etc. It completes the requirements of developers for writing and testing software.

**Why Use An IDE?**
* Integrated Testing
* Integrated Debugging
* Integrated Code Organization and Navigation

**Benefits Of An IDE-**
* Easy collaboration
* Improves productivity
* Standardization
* Effective project management
* Encourages continual Learning

**Best Golang IDEs-**
*1. Goland-*
It is a Go language integrated development environment launched by JetBrains. It is also based on the IntelliJ platform and supports the plugin system of JetBrains. Goland allows you run tests directly on the code without need to switch to the terminal. Some other types of languages like SQL, Bash or support tools like Docker can be added manually, that are cross sectional for any of Jetbrains IDE. Goland is helpful to analyze- 

* Code generation
* Tabbed interface
* Source code
* Refactoring,
* Inspections and quick fixes
* Smart code completion
* Quick navigation
* Highlighting function exit points
* Showing the type of any expression
* Being a commercial IDE, it offers Golang developers a robust, ergonomic environment. It has a wide ecosystem as created by an established company. 

**2. Visual Studio Code-**
Visual studio code is an extensible open-source IDE developed by Microsoft. It offers support for a wide range of programming languages and is focused on web development. Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, that is, in turn based on Chromium. It supports golang development by integrating all Go tools and Delve debugger through Delve debugger. One can install some Go tools and packages to get started. Golang has a supportive and strong community including golang developers with regular contributions. Visual studio code is very quick and responsive. Features of Visual studio code are as follows-

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