Great work, as a long time IntelliJ user for a variety of different languages I'm excited to see how this Go-centric version turns out. Added my name to the private beta.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 8:28 AM Florin Pățan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'm very excited to announce a new episode in the life of the Go plugin > for IntelliJ. > > > About three years ago, Sergey Ignatov and Alexander Zolotov started a > major rewrite of the plugin that took it to a working state. Since then > they've made more than 3000 commits, working day and night and even > weekends to make sure that Go programmers have a good experience with the > existing plugin. > > > Back then, the plugin had little over 80K downloads. Now it’s got more > than 640K downloads, the Go community is growing at an impressive rate, and > there’s a high demand for a better developer experience compared to > everything else available. Noting all this, JetBrains has decided to put > its full support behind it and create a world class editor which will > deliver the same quality and functionality that you may be familiar with in > their other IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, etc. > > > Today, they've just announced their new dedicated Go IDE codenamed > Gogland, which picks up where the open-source plugin left off and > introduces a number of changes with many many more to come. > > > To name a few of these exciting new features: > > - type comparison features > > - go to inheritor structures > > - go to super interfaces > > - type based "smart completion" > > - extract function refactoring > > - built-in formatter equal to gofmt > > - sub-tests support (running, navigation, gutters) > > - tests debugging > > - semantic highlighting and parameter name hints > > - more Inspections and Quickfixes > > > The IDE is currently in private beta and while it's under heavy > development, it's already in a very good shape. On my current setup, with a > GOPATH of over 7 GB of Go sources only, it takes about 5 minutes to have it > fully indexed (a one-time operation). The IDE starts in less than 10 > seconds with the project ready to be edited. > > > If you wish to become an early adopter of the IDE or get more information > about it, please go to its dedicated page, https://www.jetbrains.com/go/. > You also have a chance to give the final name for the IDE, so I encourage > you to join in. > > > Finally, I'd like to thank Sergey and Alexander and all the other > contributors for all their hard work on this. It's been wonderful to work > with them on this project. > > > Kind regards, > Florin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
