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by pjmlp 880 days ago
The whole "cgo is not Go" bashing is a kind of joke, maybe if Go 2 ever comes to light, one of the first breaking changes should be to remove cgo.

There, beautiful Go code from that point onwards.
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beautron 880 days ago
Dear Lord, no! I depend on cgo for my game!

What's more, I have no complaints about cgo. It hasn't been a performance problem at all (my game runs smoothly at 240hz). And the interface for binding to C is quite simple and nice to work with (I made my own bindings to SDL2, OpenGL, and Steamworks).

Cgo did make cross-compiling trickier to set up, but I managed to do it with a fair amount of elbow grease (Windows and MacOS builds on my Linux desktop).

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pjmlp 880 days ago
That is my point with my sarcastic remark, cgo should be embraced for the workflows it offers, instead of the whole "cgo is not Go" drama.
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