I don't believe Go intends to be used for Desktop applications. I believe that's more Rust's goal.

Go I suspect is intended for more service related stuff, backend, server, processing, etc.

Though I'm not 100% sure about this.

Rusts goal isn't desktop applications, its goal for better or worse is to attempt to supplant C++.

Im working in a weird "application platform"(looks more like a crazy userspace OS) right now and as a step 2, im planning to bind to the chrome compositor in the low level.. and build a ui framework in Go from there.. but the phase 1 is really the most important, and i think i will pre-launch before the UI kit..

The good side of it, is that you can also bind a web rendering engine totally coded in Go or bind the webkit rendering to the compositor backend..

I hope i get there soon..

This looked promising the last time I looked at it: https://github.com/andlabs/ui

Interesting, thanks