Very different experience for me, working with Go using Emacs has been pretty smooth sailing from day one (which for me was around the Go 1.0 release).
go-mode with godef, goimports and oracle was great during the early years. I remember telling people how the simplicity and quality of tooling and the great Emacs support around them was one of the reasons I enjoyed working with Go.
The transition to module support was a bit of a pain but that was a question of updates to the tooling, not Emacs itself. And then LSP came along just around the right time to deal with that and everything else.
Other than Elisp itself and Common Lisp (SLIME) I'd say Go is my favorite language to work with using Emacs.
Edit, looking at the timeline Go 1.0 was March 2012 and it took a year before we had go-mode with godef support. I guess I managed until then, it was simpler times in the Go world.
go-mode with godef, goimports and oracle was great during the early years. I remember telling people how the simplicity and quality of tooling and the great Emacs support around them was one of the reasons I enjoyed working with Go.
The transition to module support was a bit of a pain but that was a question of updates to the tooling, not Emacs itself. And then LSP came along just around the right time to deal with that and everything else.
Other than Elisp itself and Common Lisp (SLIME) I'd say Go is my favorite language to work with using Emacs.
Edit, looking at the timeline Go 1.0 was March 2012 and it took a year before we had go-mode with godef support. I guess I managed until then, it was simpler times in the Go world.