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I'm waiting for a mature GUI library to start something serious in Go.

I'd be very^2 interested to see how the concurrency primitives of Go help graphical applications.

Given that Rob created one of Go's ancestors using the same CSP concurrency model back in the 80's precisely to build GUI apps, I think it should work quite well:

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/squeak/

Ha! didn't know he worked specifically in this context, thanks a lot. I'm even more impatient now.

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