Yeah that's one of the first things I mentioned. Go executables aren't editable. In practice it barely makes a difference, if you can SSH onto a machine then you can SCP a binary onto it too. At that point you edit the source code and press Ctrl+P, Return to rerun "go build -o fix-the-thing main.go && scp fix-the-thing $HOST:/tmp && ssh /tmp/fix-the-thing". And then you've got your code ready to check in to source.