gio VS imgui-go

Compare gio vs imgui-go and see what are their differences.

gio

Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio) (by gioui)

imgui-go

Go wrapper library for "Dear ImGui" (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) (by inkyblackness)
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gio imgui-go
62 7
1,397 797
3.7% -
9.2 6.3
5 days ago over 1 year ago
Go C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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gio

Posts with mentions or reviews of gio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.

imgui-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of imgui-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.
  • LTT creating their own Benchmark tool called MarkBench
    2 projects | /r/hardware | 13 Oct 2022
    FYI, they're using Dear ImGui. Either https://github.com/AllenDang/giu or https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go
  • Announce cimgui-go an auto-generated wrapper of Dear ImGui
    7 projects | /r/golang | 18 Aug 2022
    As the maintainer of https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go , I like this a lot.
  • Desktop applications discussion
    11 projects | /r/golang | 28 Apr 2021
  • State of Go GUI in 2021
    11 projects | /r/golang | 18 Feb 2021
    Why are you people keep recommending fyne.io??? Don't waste your time, just download it's sample demo (1. go get fyne.io/fyne/v2/cmd/fyne_demo/ ; 2. fyne_demo) try it and see for yourself "how good it is" (it's not). Then download Dear ImGui (golangs bindings here: https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go) and compare the quality... it's not even funny how much better it is. So it's just baffling to see at every golang GUI thread people keep recommending Fyne, when alternatives like ImGui exist, which are just astronomically better. Those who recommend, do you even use it yourself or just keep repeating what others suggested somewhere else...?
  • A Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
    1 project | /r/rust | 13 Jan 2021
    That said, I have used Dear ImGui with before with Go (https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go), it comes with several backends and one of them ("glfw_opengl3") actually works. I don't know if it is any different in Rust.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gio and imgui-go you can also consider the following projects:

fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

qt - Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly

go-flutter - Flutter on Windows, MacOS and Linux - based on Flutter Embedding, Go and GLFW.

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go

implot - Immediate Mode Plotting

fyne-x - Community extensions to the cross platform GUI in Go based on Material Design

easy_profiler - Lightweight profiler library for c++

giu - Cross platform rapid GUI framework for golang based on Dear ImGui.

awesome-dear-imgui - A collection of awesome dear imgui bindings, extensions and resources

go-astilectron - Build cross platform GUI apps with GO and HTML/JS/CSS (powered by Electron)

browser - Package browser provides helpers to open files, readers, and urls in a browser window.