fyne-cross VS gio

Using https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross makes it super simple to cross compile to other systems and architectures as well.

There may also be some hints in the Docker config that fyne-cross uses for compilation? https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross

The setup should be pretty straight forward, you just need Go and Docker (as per the docs https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross) after that you compile the downloader and it makes an app you can install like a normal native app.

I would personally say that the best option at the moment is Fyne (https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne). It provides a very easy to use interface with easy portability and cross-platform support. All applications can easily be cross-compiled using https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross and a lot of developer information exists on https://developer.fyne.io/.

I think it’s the best for Go because it manages to bring a very easy to use API and still allow for a lot of flexibility. Your app will run on all major desktop operating systems (even NetBSD and OpenBSD with the upcoming release) but also on mobiles. It doesn’t suffer from the same issues that bindings to C-libraries (like GTK and Qt) have and is also super easy to cross-compile using https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross.

Fyne is much better when it comes to cross-compiling that GTK+3 will ever be. The GTK+3 binaries are not statically linked and thus needs a lot more GTK+3 dependencies installed on the target system compared to Fyne which basically needs nothing (just a GPU driver, but you’re not very good off without one either way). Fyne also allow you to cross-compile using https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross with ease, taking care of all of the heavy lifting.

Yes. Fyne-cross has support for building for the Android target. https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross

> At least with a language like Go, it somewhat makes sense, and has been attempted: https://gioui.org/

Gio UI is an immediate-mode UI, and immediate-mode UIs map very nicely to Rust. egui is quite easy to use. https://www.egui.rs/

I've been writing a WASM app using gio & I found myself wanting for a simplified web library. In addition I drew some inspiration from leptos server functions. A friend of mine mentioned it has some similarities with next.js

I am building the same but with golang and https://gioui.org/

This release of Gonum/plot is in sync with Gonum-v0.13.0 and updates the vg/vggio backend to the latest Gio API.

Historically, C++. Today, (unfortunately) a lot of (non-game) desktop apps are written in HTML/CSS/JS using Electron. There are projects like Fyne and GIO that aim to make Go a viable language for building large-scale performant desktop apps. My open-source hobby project Supersonic is a music player app built using Fyne.

gioui.org

It’s actually extremely easy, if you use one of the actively developed options like https://fyne.io or https://gioui.org for example. Flutter’s Dart may help with real-time hacking of UI but Go produces better code in the long run!