The debugger isn’t great. Most things just work, and they just work well for the most popular use cases. Documentation is just comments—no special syntax to memorize and no need to maintain infrastructure to parse docstrings and publish to a web server. It also runs the examples to make sure they work. The build system doesn’t require you to learn a special (typically imperative) project configuration language or Makefile generator. It also outputs a statically-linked binary by default—no VMs or interpreters or libraries to shop separately. Although it doesn’t have a comprehensive assertion suite, Go ships with a unit test framework that just works, which is more than can be said for most languages. And all of these things are standard so you can pretty much jump into any project and build it, run its test suite, and begin contributing with little more than a text editor and the Go toolchain. So yeah, Go’s tooling is simply fantastic and no other mainstream language except Rust comes close. This isn’t a fanboy statement; there are lots of other factors to consider, but Go’s tooling is top notch.
