A Simple Go Editor

I have found that the difficulties and poor info on configuring e.g. VScode, Notepad++ for Go are significant for the beginner. The editor provided here is a Notepad-level one, with find, search/replace, but no knowledge of Go syntax. It is basically a simple text editor with buttons for running, formatting, and the creation of small programs. Saving before a Run is automatic.

It is zero-cost, open source.

It has been used on Windows 10 and 11 satisfactorily, but should work on other versions as well.

It was written in Lazarus Pascal and developed and used on Windows, but Lazarus can produce Linux code as well. It should not be hard to port to Linux.

Here is a screenshot:

Here is project source (Lazarus Pascal).
and here is a page briefly explaining how to download the Lazarus IDE and compile the source, with a few clicks. Finally, rename the resulting exe as gogo25.exe if you wish. There is a help file (txt) inside the project folder.

Or here is the Win binary, around 8 MB. Bear in mind that your system might warn you about such binaries, and/or prevent a download. (Hence the project source above.) You should always take note of such warnings.