There is Go support for SWIG: http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Go.html http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Go.html Still, it is rarely used, building in pure Go is much nicer

There is Go support for SWIG: http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Go.html http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Go.html Still, it is rarely used, building in pure Go is much nicer, because one of the great things about Go is building systems where you can understand all the pieces. And if you want to understand what a Go lib does looking at the source is surprisingly informative. (This also addresses most of the complaints about documentation).