there was talk early in the project about whether Go needed an IDE to succeed. No one on the team had the right skill set, though, so we did not try to create one. However, we did create core libraries for parsing and printing Go code, which soon enabled high-quality plugins for all manner of editor and IDE, and that was a serendipitous success.
To be fair, we then had to throw all of those "high-quality" plugins in the garbage where they belonged, and go with Microsoft's Language Server architecture instead to really have a usable Go IDE experience in something like Emacs or vim (GoLand from JetBrains is of course much better, and that might be using some of the built-in Go tools?).
there was talk early in the project about whether Go needed an IDE to succeed. No one on the team had the right skill set, though, so we did not try to create one. However, we did create core libraries for parsing and printing Go code, which soon enabled high-quality plugins for all manner of editor and IDE, and that was a serendipitous success.
Which I read as they considered IDEs important.