kawa
A small Wayland compositor inspired by Plan 9's rio. (by DeedleFake)
gamen
Cross-platform GUI window creation & management library in Go (by rajveermalviya)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kawa
Posts with mentions or reviews of kawa.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
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GLFW has merged proper support for client-side window decorations on Wayland!
Source: I've been slowly building my own wlroots-based compositor for about a year now and I also wrote my own pure Go implementation of both sides of the Wayland protocol for the fun of it.
gamen
Posts with mentions or reviews of gamen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.
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gamen: Cross-platform GUI window creation & management library in Go
gamen is cross-platform GUI window creation and management library in Go. It hides all the quirks of dealing with platform-specific APIs like Win32, Wayland, X11 & Android NDK, providing a consistent API for the creation of windows, handling events generated by platform windows & mutating created windows.
- Show HN: Gamen – Window handling library in Go
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kawa and gamen you can also consider the following projects:
wl - Pure Go Wayland protocol implementation.
purego
go-wayland - Wayland Client in Pure Go
go - The Go programming language
mir - The Mir compositor
Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
go-formatter - A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software
qt - Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly