[ParetoOptimal]

> Why downvote this guy for essentially just pointing out that Emacs isn't terribly useful out of the box if you want to develop software? This is objectively true, isn't it?

I don't think that's true.

Do you include installing emacs packages as out of the box as you would vscode plugins though?

[shadowgovt]

vscode recommends plugins to install as it encounters file types they would be appropriate for. It's not strictly out of the box, but it's fairly close to out of the box... Out of the box, vscode comes configured to guide the developer to enhance it as needed.

[bborud]

Well, it is or it isn't.

Here's what you can try: do a clean install of both, then document the steps you had to take to get VS Code + Go plugin to work vs getting Emacs to within a reasonable fraction of what VS Code will provide. Post your Emacs config when you are done. (As well as links to the sources where you found working configurations).

PS: good luck nailing the language server stuff on the first try on Emacs.

[lycopodiopsida]

Quite easy - install doom emacs, comment out the ;;(go +lsp) in init.el and run doom sync. You are done and can do go development now with 1 line of config.