Guest post by Go is a highly hyped (last year) new programming language by Google. Thanks to ongoing community effort, its Win32 compatibility constantly improves. This week’s rolling release should be considered a major milestone. In the somewhat dry words: “implementation of callback functions for Windows” and “cgo: windows/386 port”, it introduces two major breakthroughs for this platform: WinAPI GUI support, and the ability to easily wrap and link external (non-Go) libraries. Note that there’s an unofficial compiled build for Win32 available for download.
Sorry but I thought go was to be cross-platform, how a WinAPI GUI could help in this direction? GTK+ is available on Windows. Why are they wasting developers’ time?
Edited 2011-02-03 17:24 UTC
GTK’s a useful toolkit but, while system integration has improved loads recently, gtk-based apps still feels non-native on windows.
Win32 is still the best way to write native-feeling windows apps
At first, I rode “Recent Google Go Build Brings Threats for Windows”…
“rode” is for “to ride” and “read” (pronounced [red], like the color) is for “to read” [ri:d]. I guess you meant the latter.