Is this ready for prime time?

[ShalokShalom]

Hi there. ☺️

I maintain this list and ask myself, if I could raise this extension into "Production ready" status.

I dont see anything here or on the README, that clearly speaks about this.

Is it ready? Can it be recommended for productive use, or will it break API tomorrow? 🙂

[Splizard]

Hey @ShalokShalom thanks for opening a discussion on this, it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem at this stage. The project needs more usage to explore Go + Godot to discover issues and pain points in order to become production ready. When it is production ready, this will likely attract more users.

In terms of accessing the Godot API from Go, this project is close to complete in that regard. As mentioned in the 2025 Announcement I don't forsee any more major breaking changes but I would say treat the API stability story closer to how things are like with Zig, there may still be breaking changes from time to time as we refine the exported symbols.

I can certainly aim to provide tooling that will automatically fix breaking changes (there's some scaffolding for this already).

[Splizard]

Is there any project, that already uses it for a sizable project?

Nothing public yet that I'm aware of.

[ShalokShalom]

Good to know it supports editor tools.

I want to add that (and platform support) to the comparison as well.

One last question: How do you translate the Go code to shader?

Thanks

[Splizard]

Cheers, the shader code is written by calling shader-specific functions. The shader is then run once in Go which essentially records itself as an AST which is compiled down into Godot's GLSL variant.

This sort of approach is often referred to as a language-hosted DSL. It's well suited for branchless shaders as any Go branches or side effects will only be evaluated at shader 'compile time'.

The key benefits are the type safety, composition, language familiarity and IDE integration that result from this.

[nii236]

Hi @ShalokShalom, not sure if you're planning on exporting to web. If you are, its not quite ready for production yet.

[ShalokShalom]

Thanks a lot, that helps. Most alternative languages for Godot dont support that.