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> Have you tried writing Rust and Go in a plain text editor and had problems, or are you a happy user of an IDE for another language and waiting for one to be available before you try them out?

I tried both out, but I'm a Scala / Python User mainly and I loved the IDE's I have. Currently especially Autocompletion and my Shortcuts, like search Classes, Types, etc helped me on being productive. Also jump to definition is a feature I often use.

Yes I could even use java without an IDE or Scala however it's not as comfortable and I feel that when I'm programming on an editor I spent a few hours a week tweaking it. While on a IDE i just replace 'some' shortcuts.

Still I think even GO needs a better IDE, since the projects with a few lines are gone and even if you don't write as many lines as in java you still getting a pretty big codebase when you write something useful.

Putting everything in his own library won't help / it will make the problem even scarier since you now need to remember a bigger import path.

Rust is similar and still I love it despite the crates/modules system, since I think it has some rough spots. However they improve the docs regulary which makes things more clear, still it's hard while coming from python/scala/java to have a rust like import path.



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