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Quoth Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>:
> On 12/10/20 8:18 AM, telephil9@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>  >
> 
>  > If you want to write a graphical program in GO that works on plan9
> 
>  > then you could take a look at duit (https://github.com/mjl-/duit).
> 
>  >
> 
> I was never able to get duit to work completely on 9front, I had some 
> success with a forked version of the p9p go tools that I had hacked 
> on[0] but there seemed to be quite a few little differences to the 
> environment that p9p gives vs what native plan9 gives you in practice. 
> In particular I recall p9p devdraw always had the window top left corner 
> be (0,0), which caused quite a few assumptions in duit. Also some issues 
> on how to treat special characters like tab literals in text display. I 
> could be remembering wrong, it has been a while since I tinkered with it.
> 
> [0] https://github.com/majiru/go

Glad to hear about this.  I've been missing acmego since moving to
9front and was planning to start hacking on the p9p Go tools.  I'll
just start with this and send PR's your way if I find any issues.