I kind of think web browsers are a special case - along with complex game engines with very high framerate requirements, and running lots of custom scripts.

But yes, GUI apps would be pretty good in Go, if there was better library support. I totally agree.

I wasn't trying to say Go is a "scripting language"... Maybe that came across badly.

There's a lot of crossover from where 'scripting' merges into the 'real application' world. I had a bunch on bash scripts for writing large video projects to tapes, and synchronising projects on multiple workstations. I then wrote a very simple web app so that non-techies could control it too without the commandline. I then ended up writing a small job queue for that, and a few other bits to go along with it, some workstation monitoring, and so on. It's now a 3k lines small python application, with a few shell scripts underneath.

That domain, Go could work pretty well for too, I think.