I just gave it a try now, but the code will not compile on my dev box (OpenBSD, go tip). Even after making some minor fixes (I fixed an #include directive, removed a call to a deprecated function, etc.) there appear to be some serious issues (one error I got mentioned the size of an array being negative).
It appears this code has not been updated in a year, and we wished to target a recent GTK version (3.8, to be precise) with our bindings. Had we known about the project, we probably would have considered submitted patches to fix its issue and bring it up to date with newer dependencies, but even then, I feel that it would be almost as much or perhaps even more to fix and verify an unfamiliar and broken code base than rolling our own.
But I'm glad to see this project seems to be doing memory management in a Go-like manner.
Just to be clear, this isn't my project, but it has been working fine for me for awhile now, but I am probably not exercising the same pathways as you. Anyway, I have written additional bindings for the Gtk Docking Library and the Syntax Highlighter against this project. Everything compiles, runs, and works well.
It is a little frustrating as it is one of the first projects that comes up when searching for "go" and "gtk3" on Google. So, it is is an alternative to what you are doing I guess.
Actually, some of my coworkers had tried it previously and couldn't get it working either. I just didn't know they had tried it, and they didn't ask me to play around with it to try and get it in shape (this may have been before I started working full time with Conformal).
So this was just me not being aware of it, but others of us at Conformal were, and due to the above issues we decided to do our own.
I just gave it a try now, but the code will not compile on my dev box (OpenBSD, go tip). Even after making some minor fixes (I fixed an #include directive, removed a call to a deprecated function, etc.) there appear to be some serious issues (one error I got mentioned the size of an array being negative).
It appears this code has not been updated in a year, and we wished to target a recent GTK version (3.8, to be precise) with our bindings. Had we known about the project, we probably would have considered submitted patches to fix its issue and bring it up to date with newer dependencies, but even then, I feel that it would be almost as much or perhaps even more to fix and verify an unfamiliar and broken code base than rolling our own.
But I'm glad to see this project seems to be doing memory management in a Go-like manner.