[FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

[Owen Densmore]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> I did a quick look through. Any idea how to get a GUI? HTML via  
> webserver?
>
> -S

My guess is hidden in my earlier response: GUI programming will not be  
at the systems level.  It will be at a service level (i.e. like the X  
window system, it will be a server with a protocol interface).

So all the GO folks will have to do is write the protocol client,  
using the existing X server protocol.  For non-X systems either C/C++  
integration (calling out from GO to C/C++) will work.  On Mac and  
*nix, this is not an issue as long as you don't mind Apple's X server.

Notice that none of the existing languages really support GUI other  
than Java, and many feel that was a mistake .. it took way too many of  
Java's development time.  Before that, only TCL tried it, and Perl and  
several other languages found ways to use Tcl/Tk.

     -- Owen