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Re:Native GUI library for Go by incompatible on Friday June 06, 2014 @06:58AM (#7857124)
It's amazing how many wheels need to be reinvented every time somebody introduces yet another language.
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Re:Native GUI library for Go by shawnps on Friday June 06, 2014 @07:45AM (#7857311)
Do you mean the author is reinventing the wheel because this already exists in other programming languages, or because there are many existing GUI libraries like this in Go already? It's likely there are many people who are most comfortable writing Go recently so I don't understand how this is a problem.
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Re:Native GUI library for Go by feadog on Friday June 06, 2014 @03:25PM (#7859870)
Some folks at Microsoft were trying to circumvent this with Singularity OS being based on something like CLR. Then everything could dynamically interoperate with everything on a programming language level.

http://xkcd.com/927/

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Re:Native GUI library for Go by andlabs on Friday June 06, 2014 @04:50PM (#7860214)
If I recall correctly, the point of Singularity wasn't to have a platform base where all programming languages shared the same infrastructure, but rather to have an operating system that ran (almost) entirely in "managed code" (the .net framework's safe-execution system).

.net itself is what you're thinking of.

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Re:Native GUI library for Go by mg74 on Friday June 06, 2014 @07:04AM (#7857144)
ServerSwift! SwiftPOSIX! SwiftToJS! SwiftGTK! KSwift! WinSwift! SwiftCurse!
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Re:Native GUI library for Go by rabino on Friday June 06, 2014 @07:35AM (#7857265)
and the most important of all, 2048Swift, which of course happened already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7845441

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