Will Go be the new go-to programming language?

Re:Will Go be the new go-to programming language? by nuttendorfer on Thursday September 13, 2012 @10:33AM (#4516297)

I'm waiting for a mature GUI library to start something serious in Go.

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Re:Will Go be the new go-to programming language? by agumonkey on Thursday September 13, 2012 @10:41AM (#4516336)

I'd be very^2 interested to see how the concurrency primitives of Go help graphical applications.

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Re:Will Go be the new go-to programming language? by luriel on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:58AM (#4516852)

Given that Rob created one of Go's ancestors using the same CSP concurrency model back in the 80's precisely to build GUI apps, I think it should work quite well:

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/squeak/

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Re:Will Go be the new go-to programming language? by agumonkey on Thursday September 13, 2012 @12:18PM (#4516987)

Ha! didn't know he worked specifically in this context, thanks a lot. I'm even more impatient now.

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