After having looked into Go quite a bit my conclusion is that C is still the language of choice for my/our projects.
I want to carry on with my goals such as stali, cleaned up dwm and st (which is still on the backburner) in C. I don't want to get involved too much into some new language that looks outstanding at first glance, but that has some way to go still to be a viable alternative. I guess it'll take at least a year to attempt a judgment about Go. For dwm I plan to have the drawing bits and Xlib bits abstracted into separate files using some new header that will make it simple to implement the rendering on top of xft/pango/cairo or whatever a while ago, though keeping the reference implementation plain good old Xlib based. Once that's finished (which shouldn't take too long and which has the nice side-effect that dmenu can use the same interface) I will do Go bindings to these minimalist interfaces and play with Go a bit to write a dwm-like WM in Go as an excercise. That might result in some more insight and better judgement. Cheers, Anselm
