jrick

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   by jrick 13y ago

   We do try to deal with concurrency and goroutines as much as we can. I'd recommend taking a look at the (rather simple) goroutine example as part of the gtk package. Unfortunately though, as you said, GTK is not thread safe (calling
2. 2.▲
   by jrick 13y ago

   Actually, some of my coworkers had tried it previously and couldn't get it working either. I just didn't know they had tried it, and they didn't ask me to play around with it to try and get it in shape (this may have been be
3. 3.▲
   by jrick 13y ago

   I'm actually a huge fan of Rust's memory model and wished Go had something similar, since it's faster to use smart pointers, and less calls to the garbage collector are required. I also love how rust uses three different kin
4. 4.▲
   by jrick 13y ago

   I use channels all the time in actual code using gotk3. Unfortunately, it means using glib.IdleAdd() a lot (because GTK is not thread safe), but it works.
5. 5.▲
   by jrick 13y ago

   In short, we weren't aware of the project. I just gave it a try now, but the code will not compile on my dev box (OpenBSD, go tip). Even after making some minor fixes (I fixed an #include directive, removed a call to a deprecated func