JetBrains GoLand
Hacker ApprovedRanked 18 of 33 IDEs by recommenders
Recommended for strong code analysis, navigation and bundled Go linters. The most common complaint is that it uses a lot of resources.
Recommended for strong code analysis, navigation and bundled Go linters. The most common complaint is that it uses a lot of resources.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 16
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 76%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 16 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Static analysis catches leaks and oversights
“The latest GoLand release introduces resource leak analysis to catch unclosed files, connections, and other resources before they cause damage.”
Comment from 10 Dec 2025 in “Preventing Resource Leaks in Go: How GoLand Helps You Write Safer Code” “linters such as are packaged into Goland will catch oversights quite effectively”
Comment from 25 May 2026 in “Migrating from Go to Rust” Strong code navigation and inline hints
“Goland's analyser is pretty powerful and can navigate from interface to implementation(s) and vice versa.”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Just Fucking Use Go” “showing hints from later parts of the tool chain about how things are going to turn out”
Comment from 11 Dec 2025 in “Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked” Stable and well supported for Go
“mostly goland which might be more stable then others”
Comment from 21 Aug 2026 in “The August 17 outage, and the work ahead” “supported out of the box by Goland”
Comment from 24 Jul 2026 in “Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot” Familiar JetBrains workflow and tools
“I'm a long time jetbrains user and still use goland, rust rover, and clion.”
Comment from 13 Dec 2025 in “JetBrains cancels Fleet” “which in my case opens it up in the Goland multi-file diff viewer”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Bugs and slow fixes from JetBrains
“failed to gain attention from JetBrains for months and years on their issue tracker”
Comment from 10 Dec 2025 in “The Unified IntelliJ Idea: More Free Features, Better Experience, Smoother Flow” “syntax errors displaying persistently even after being fixed”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains”
Other IDEs people recommend
The four most recommended other IDEs, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBrains IDEs | 233 | 143 | 62% | 13 | 10 yrs39 owners | — |
| IntelliJ IDEA | 206 | 105 | 66% | 13 | 10 yrs18 owners | — |
| Microsoft Visual Studio | 165 | 165 | 50% | 12 | 10 yrs10 owners | — |
| Delphi | 126 | 44 | 74% | 13 | 23 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| JetBrains GoLandThis page | 16 | 5 | 76% | 10 | — | Approved |
What people said
19 of the 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it is very useful to be able to figure out what the LLM did”
“if you blocked the IDE from networking via little snitch/opensnitch, it did not seem to work or keep working”
“mostly goland which might be more stable then others”
“supported out of the box by Goland”
“the resource hog and I guess focus on writing a mediocre AI side panel really killed it for me”
“linters such as are packaged into Goland will catch oversights quite effectively”
“provide worse results compared to the equivalent JetBrains IDE”
“My next job I started using Goland and was quite happy with it”
“only when you implement it correctly”
“Goland's analyser is pretty powerful and can navigate from interface to implementation(s) and vice versa.”
“I hate the company, use maybe 5% of the features, but there is nothing better out there.”
“PyCharm/GoLand both are "nice" but it did not feel better/more efficient than pylance/pyright”
“My only gripe with the Goland integration is if you have multiple terminals open with CC”
“I'm a long time jetbrains user and still use goland, rust rover, and clion.”
“showing hints from later parts of the tool chain about how things are going to turn out”
“failed to gain attention from JetBrains for months and years on their issue tracker”
“The latest GoLand release introduces resource leak analysis to catch unclosed files, connections, and other resources before they cause damage.”
“syntax errors displaying persistently even after being fixed”
“which in my case opens it up in the Goland multi-file diff viewer”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.