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Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by Cwizard »

rizzaxc wrote: post #17
pjmlp wrote: post #13

So it is written in C or C++? Apparently Go isn't good enough to write an IDE, even that it lags behind Java.

It's not what the language is for. Go is really strong for greenfield server projects (and bad pretty much anywhere else)

I think it is also very good for CLI’s and background agents

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by alexdunmow »

robertlagrant wrote: post #9
jmercouris wrote: post #4

I like that it is written C/C++. I remember Eclipse was written in Java, and I thought that was really cool. Java to edit Java.

Eclipse was less cool once you had to use it. Only IDE to have a restart option in the file menu, for when it got confused.

IntelliJ has this too.

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by progx »

Fast is not everything. Switch some years ago from Sublime to VSCode. Sublime is super fast, has many extensions, but VSCode is another league with more and powerfull extension and functions and a huge community. Electron etc. are not really arguments in 2023, cause my computer is fast, faster than i could do anything. The extensions and function help me working faster, not the text editor.

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by p0w3n3d »

maccard wrote: post #16
pjmlp wrote: post #13

So it is written in C or C++? Apparently Go isn't good enough to write an IDE, even that it lags behind Java.

> Apparently Go isn't good enough to write an IDE, even that it lags behind Java. The GUI situation in go is poor, but other than that I would say go is an excellent tool to write the remainder of the IDE in.

writing desktop UI is really difficult these days. I mean i'm not saying it used to be easier, but the amount of technologies you can use to write a web application or desktop/javascript application and easiness of creation is overwhelming, while the amount of GUI frameworks stays the same, while some of them are decaying (no new version for a long time).

So we have objective-c/swift (new!) for macos, MFC for MSVC++, WPF/UWP for C# - all those for windows, and we have QT/GTK for Linux and de facto multiplatform. That's basically all usable at the moment, but GTK is heavy on windows/mac in my opinion.

New languages bubbling up from the opensource ground meanwhile do not offer many bindings for those above, while QT had made it hard to do any reliable binding at all, apparently...

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by hknmtt »

I am stuck with Goland, which i really like, because i cannot stand vscode. But like all jetbrains products, i use about 1% of the functionality of the IDE. So having appropriately priced alternatives, WITHOUT subscription model which i will never pay for, is very welcome.

PS: all I use is terminal tabs, looking up functions/method/properties and their descriptions, go-to definition, open folder, and run tests(which is just small command anyway). as i have said, 99% of IDE is worthless to me.

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by carom »

progx wrote: post #25

Fast is not everything. Switch some years ago from Sublime to VSCode. Sublime is super fast, has many extensions, but VSCode is another league with more and powerfull extension and functions and a huge community. Electron etc. are not really arguments in 2023, cause my computer is fast, faster than i could do anything. The extensions and function help me working faster, not the text editor.

I still use Sublime. No complaints, and as a bonus it isn't an Electron app.
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