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by dvfjsdhgfv 3250 days ago
OO in Go is quite peculiar, but not impossible. I'd even say you could quite naturally code methods and properties of components, while events would have to be a part of this particular implementation. In any case, I completely agree: whoever decides to do it, they'll have to take Go's peculiarities into account and instead of making an exact copy of Delphi in Go, create a new project leveraging the specific features of Go and reflecting them in the GUI construction in an elegant way.
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Yeah, my comment came off a little harsh. I'm not discouraging someone from creating a Go IDE like Delphi, I'm just saying that one should be prepared to make allowances for what the language can/cannot do, given that one cannot change the language. The original Delphi team had the enviable position of being able to modify the language to suit the IDE, and vice-versa.