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It's not what the language is for. Go is really strong for greenfield server projects (and bad pretty much anywhere else)

• Cwizard 3y ago
  I think it is also very good for CLI’s and background agents
• perbu 3y ago
  In my opinion the language itself lends it self pretty well for GUIs. The concurrency and synchronization primitives are strong. The problem would be to have native bindings to the GUI elements of the various desktop OSes. Which are hard to build as calling C or C++ libraries aren't a real option. I would love to hear why Go as a language isn't suited for GUIs. I've built a couple of toy GUIs and it's been a pleasure doing so.
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    > Which are hard to build as calling C or C++ libraries aren't a real option. Using CGO is hardly any different from JNI in complexity.
    • perbu 3y ago
      Cgo is not Go ref https://go-proverbs.github.io/ https://go-proverbs.github.io/
      • pjmlp 3y ago
        Last time I checked it is. https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/cgo https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/cgo
        • perbu 3y ago
          try it and see. there is a reason for the proverb.
• pjmlp 3y ago
  CGO exists.