SOsonggao·Aug 21, 2013
There's a package that does that: https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go
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termbox-go
Pure Go termbox implementation
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2 sourcesSadly that's mostly still work in progress.
OpenGL bindings are at https://github.com/go-gl
For 2D graphics there's promising project at https://github.com/skelterjohn/go.wde which provides interface that you can use together with http://golang.org/pkg/image/draw
(Issue worth noting is that none of the platforms specific parts in go.wde yet have hardware acceleration so it's not yet ready for game development etc. It's quite possible that that'll change in the future though :) )
And for ascii graphics we have https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go
There are bunch of other libraries as well but these are the ones that I'm more or less constantly using. go.wde is probably closest to what you were looking for but also the one that still requires hardware acceleration before it can properly be used as fast canvas for experimenting with games etc.
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Note: None of these count as "standard library", all of them are third party projects by gophers around the world.