LocalLLaMA debates best local model for Go

This is less a breakthrough than a useful signal: AI coding benchmarks still do not map cleanly to language-specific developer workflows. For Go, the community cares more about idiomatic concurrency, refactors, and multi-file consistency than headline leaderboard scores.

• –Multiple replies point to Qwen Coder models as the current local sweet spot, especially at larger sizes
• –Commenters explicitly say toy Go generation is easy, but interfaces, channels, tests, and project-wide changes expose model weaknesses fast
• –Public benchmarks like Aider’s polyglot leaderboard include Go, but practitioners in the thread still trust hands-on evals over aggregate rankings