Imagine writing cgo like this: #pragma C { #include <stdio.h> int foo(var * bar) { ... } Or having documentation look like this:

Imagine writing cgo like this: #pragma C { #include <stdio.h> int foo(var * bar) { ... } Or having documentation look like this: // FIXME: This is kind of a hack, and we should // get rid of it before v1.0 #pragma docs { The FooBar function will Foo all the Bars passed to it. } func FooBar(...) { You could even imagine modifying your editor to do proper syntax highlighting on the C code. Ah, well -- water under the bridge at this point. I like Go as a language overall. Most of their experiments have worked out pretty well, I think; it's inevitable that some of your experiments don't work out the way you expect, and then you're stuck with them.