> I wouldn't hold my breath on getting former Bell Labs guys to work on a graphical debugger or Eclipse support, so the language is somewhat unlikely to be developed together with those tools.

I wouldn't expect them to, and I also really can't understand the appeal of something as complex as an IDE to write code in a language as simple as Go, but Goclipse has been around for a while, and there is support for other IDEs:

http://code.google.com/p/goclipse/ http://go-lang.cat-v.org/text-editors/