GoLand vs Visual Studio Code

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Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 12 upvotes · 1.1M views

Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.

Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.

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Simon Ibssa
Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · | 2 upvotes · 1.1M views

I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!

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Pros of GoLand
Pros of Visual Studio Code
  • 4
    Auto-completion that is fast and comprehensive
  • 4
    Refactoring is efficient and has a simple UI
  • 2
    Git interaction becomes very simple and fast
  • 335
    Powerful multilanguage IDE
  • 302
    Fast
  • 190
    Front-end develop out of the box
  • 157
    Support TypeScript IntelliSense
  • 141
    Very basic but free
  • 124
    Git integration
  • 105
    Intellisense
  • 76
    Faster than Atom
  • 52
    Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
  • 43
    Great Refactoring Tools
  • 42
    Good Plugins
  • 40
    Terminal
  • 37
    Superb markdown support
  • 35
    Open Source
  • 34
    Extensions
  • 26
    Awesome UI
  • 26
    Large & up-to-date extension community
  • 23
    Powerful and fast
  • 21
    Portable
  • 18
    Best code editor
  • 17
    Best editor
  • 16
    Easy to get started with
  • 15
    Crossplatform
  • 15
    Good for begginers
  • 14
    Extensions for everything
  • 14
    Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
  • 14
    Lots of extensions
  • 14
    Built on Electron
  • 13
    All Languages Support
  • 12
    Easy to use and learn
  • 12
    "fast, stable & easy to use"
  • 12
    Extensible
  • 11
    Ui design is great
  • 11
    Git out of the box
  • 11
    Totally customizable
  • 11
    Faster edit for slow computer
  • 11
    Useful for begginer
  • 10
    Great community
  • 9
    SSH support
  • 9
    Great language support
  • 9
    It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
  • 9
    Powerful Debugger
  • 9
    Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
  • 9
    Fast Startup
  • 8
    Can compile and run .py files
  • 8
    Python extension is fast
  • 7
    Features rich
  • 7
    Great document formater
  • 6
    He is not Michael
  • 6
    She is not Rachel
  • 6
    Awesome multi cursor support
  • 5
    SFTP Workspace
  • 5
    Easy azure
  • 5
    VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
  • 5
    Very proffesional
  • 5
    Language server client
  • 5
    Extension Echosystem
  • 4
    Has better support and more extentions for debugging
  • 4
    Virtualenv integration
  • 4
    Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
  • 3
    'batteries included'
  • 3
    More tools to integrate with vs
  • 3
    Better autocompletes than Atom
  • 3
    Emmet preinstalled
  • 3
    Supports lots of operating systems
  • 3
    Has more than enough languages for any developer
  • 2
    Fast and ruby is built right in
  • 2
    Microsoft
  • 2
    Light
  • 2
    Customizable
  • 2
    VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
  • 2
    CMake support with autocomplete
  • 1
    Good
  • 1
    Big extension marketplace

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Cons of GoLand
Cons of Visual Studio Code
  • 2
    Not free
  • 44
    Slow startup
  • 27
    Resource hog at times
  • 20
    Poor refactoring
  • 15
    Microsoft
  • 13
    Poor UI Designer
  • 11
    Weak Ui design tools
  • 10
    Poor autocomplete
  • 8
    Microsoft sends telemetry data
  • 7
    Poor in PHP
  • 7
    Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
  • 6
    Super Slow
  • 5
    It's MicroSoft
  • 3
    Poor in Python
  • 3
    No Built in Browser Preview
  • 3
    No color Intergrator
  • 3
    Very basic for java development and buggy at times
  • 3
    No built in live Preview
  • 3
    Electron
  • 2
    Bad Plugin Architecture
  • 2
    Powered by Electron
  • 1
    Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes

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Java
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Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Python
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Golang
Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
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