I agree. One should definitely stop and check it out. The community is large and growing, the support is great, and the language makes tasks that are difficult in other languages a breeze. One important place where Go fits very well is as a Node.js replacement.

Indeed. I'm a big fan of Broforce, on Steam.

I use it for programming in Google's Go language. There is no better IDE for Go.

Notepad++ is only for Windows, so VSCode has the potential to be useful to many more programmers.