I did not know that this could reasonably be done. For some reason it did not occur to me that you could break the chicken and egg problem by simply linking to

I did not know that this could reasonably be done. For some reason it did not occur to me that you could break the chicken and egg problem by simply linking to libdl dynamically; Go binaries are usually static and I didn't even realize it had a mechanism for dynamically linking like this. This is pretty cool because you can already do this sort of thing on Windows (using the syscall package, since the Windows Loader is always available from kernel32 anyways) and I use it all the time. Probably the most consequential thing I've done with it is my WebView 2 bindings. But with this, you could probably do the same thing on Linux and Mac with GtkWebkit and ... WebKit, and get a native HTML window without CGo on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Perhaps this has already been done (haven't paid attention) but it would make a pretty nice way to get a UI going in Go. (It's not like I'm a fan of using HTML UIs for native apps, but it works pretty well if you don't overdo it, and using native widgets on a given platform does mess up predictability a bit, but it saves disk space at least.)