> I might be missing what you're saying here, but Goland has been around for a decent while now, and the full IntelliJ plugin has as well.
Right. That's true now (and, like you say, has been for some times) but was not the case for years. I was responding to this point in the interview talking about initial development, not the current state of the world, just to clarify.
> More to the point, users of [Kubernetes] don't really use Go as a result, right?
Yeah, they do actually. The vast majority of tooling in the Kubernetes space is also written in Go. I don't know about etcd.
> The small one is the lack of IDE support. You don't need to write an IDE. You just need to have sufficient integration into Jetbrains IDEs (at a minimum).
I might be missing what you're saying here, but Goland has been around for a decent while now, and the full IntelliJ plugin has as well. Before that, Atom or vi with some plugs I've since forgotten the name of worked well enough.
I agree with your overall points though, especially on dependency management.