Reasons Golang is bad tool for Game development?

Question

I know this sub is composed of fans of Go, but does anyone have any harsh criticisms for Go as a tool for game development? Reasons why it is poorly suited, or ways it needs to be improved so that it is better suited?

Lex Hoffman · Accepted Answer

Probably the biggest criticism one could have is the performance of C interop. Game development usually involves calling to some C libraries (for OpenGL and stuff), and the performance of those calls could impose a bottleneck in an intensive game. Another criticism would be the semi-maturity of libraries. Don't get me wrong, there are great libraries out there, including Pixel and Ebiten, but they are not as well established as some libraries in other languages, and so on. If you were thinking about GC latency, that's really a non-problem. Go has a magically well made garbage collection with virtually no pauses, so you will almost never skip a frame due to GC.

Ednsquare · Answer

I don’t think it’s bad, but other languages have much more developed ecosystems for tooling. So it’s more of a maturity problem than a language problem.

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