Go isn't a perfect language, but it strikes the right balance for me between productivity and safety. There are few other languages right now with the same ease of deployment, good tooling, excellent standard lib, and raw performance. Here's to another seven years.

Out of interest, can you point me to any GUI bindings or native Go GUI toolkits etc.? I would like to take a look, as I am normally writing native C++ GUI desktop apps.

EDIT: Thanks for all the info everyone. I hope my responses don't appear argumentative - I am genuinely curious.

gribbly

I'm certain there are more, but here are a few

platform native https://github.com/andlabs/ui

gtk http://mattn.github.io/go-gtk/

qt https://github.com/therecipe/qt

qml https://github.com/go-qml/qml

shiny (still being developed, Go native) https://github.com/golang/exp/tree/master/shiny