considering i've spent hundreds of dollars on utter bullshit, i think buying jetbrains products is well worth the money. they're fantastic and worth every penny. i'm thankful my company has licenses, but i would still pay them

One of Go's creator did a lot of the initial coding in Acme[0] :D

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

Something tells me that a person who reacts to Vim with a “yuck!” won't like Acme either. Also, I don't know how true this is, but I've read that Acme loses some of its advantages when it's run in e.g. X11 as opposed to its native rio[1] with plumber[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system)

[2]: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man4/plumber.html

I _think_ that Rob used Acme in OSX, but I can't find this source.

A couple of the Go authors did a lot of the initial coding and continue to code in Acme (rsc, r). The broader Go team use a wider variety: Vim, Emacs, Goland, and VSCode are the most popular from what I've seen.

Well, he is also the author, and ACME is even worse than classical VI, in terms of usability.

The only thing it has going for it is being based on Oberon's UI workflows.

Could you expand this? Quite like Acme and wondered what you don't like about it

Lack of syntax highlighting for one, not being even half as powerfull as Emacs as second.

Goland is really good. I think the $249 or whatever for all the IntelliJ products is really good value for money.

What are the key features from GoLand you find missing in VS Code? (I don't use either, but from what I have seen anything gopls-backed is roughly the same same as VS Code, and this is already much more than I need/want.)

The only GoLand feature I've seen that I'm envious of is the mode for editing template files - and even this breaks down quickly once you leave the HTML plane.

I love vim. =(

Its there everywhere you need it. If I have to use these other fancy pants editors I always enable vim emulation when possible but its never the same.

Yeah vim plus govim amazing.

vim with the vim-go pluugin is pretty good, fast and free. Maybe you should give it a try.