gi
This is version 1 of GoGi, for supporting existing projects. See https://github.com/cogentcore for the new improved version! (by goki)
windigo
Windows API and GUI in idiomatic Go. (by rodrigocfd)
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| gi | windigo | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 32 | |
| 7 | 349 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.5 | 7.8 | |
| 18 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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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.
gi
Posts with mentions or reviews of gi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-12.
windigo
Posts with mentions or reviews of windigo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-26.
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Longevity of Go
I'm writing native Windows apps in Go with Windigo, as a replacement for C++.
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Is Go appropriate to develop Linux Desktop app ?
I created a couple native Windows apps using Windigo, so it's clearly possible to do the same in Linux, probably with gotk3.
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The most helpful Go Packages
Windigo for low level and native Windows stuff has been extremely useful to me.
- Good project to do using Go?
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GoLang and VSCode errors are driving me mad
I also use Go with VSCode on Windows, and I develop a rather large project. If I change many things at the same time, it may hang, so I have to reload VSCode, but that's it. Nothing serious.
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Stable and native looking GUI tool for Go?
Fyne is just really ugly for me.. I'm trying to learn more about GIO lately (gioui.org) which seems to have a great potential. However you request is very simple: native Windows Gui. And there are few libraries for that: - https://github.com/gonutz/wui - https://github.com/lxn/walk - https://github.com/tadvi/winc - https://github.com/rodrigocfd/windigo
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Go: The language of cloud-native development - SD Times
In Windigo there are some specific implementations for x32 and x64 platforms, for example.
- A native Windows video playback application written in pure Go, using DirectX
- A native Windows video playback application, using DirectX
- What are the upsides and downsides of Go compared to C#?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gi and windigo you can also consider the following projects:
fyne-x - Community extensions to the cross platform GUI in Go based on Material Design
fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
govcl - Cross-platform Go/Golang GUI library.
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.
go-gui-projects - A list of Go GUI projects
gio - Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio)
GlovePIE - The original creator stopped maintaining it and the original site went down. I have uploaded my copy so people can continue using it.
gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).