go-gui-projects VS giu

Here's a list of Go UI libraries and here's an article about Rust UI libraries. In general, Go has a broader ecosystem, however, Rust has Tauri, which, if you're coming from a web background, will be right up your alley, so you'll be able to put stuff on the screen, while gradually learning about Rust and set up RPCs in the Rust part of your application that you can then call from JS.

May could be one of these.

Go doesn’t really have any GUI stuff in the standard library, but there are a few different projects listed here. I would suggest scanning that list for some Mac/xib related libraries. macDriver is one that specifically mentioned Apple.

GUI (of course there are now solutions , https://golangr.com/gui/ https://z-kit.cc/ https://developer.fyne.io/ more at here: https://github.com/go-graphics/go-gui-projects )

and many https://github.com/go-graphics/go-gui-projects

Go code compiles to executables, and you can cross compile (make windows exe on linux for example). But like other people have said, it doesn't have any GUI packages in core. There are many options out there in the community, see this. Some though use native GUI's like WinUI, so that makes the cross-compile not so useful. Instead there are packages that use toolkits like GTK2 for cross-platform code. There is also an interesting package called Fyne that have made their own toolkit in Go. But lately I have been using a package that uses the web browser as its GUI, and it is called Wails V2.

Go is a language typically used for backend related systems so as far as I know GUI support is fairly limited. Here is a list of options though if you really want to use go: https://github.com/go-graphics/go-gui-projects.

Go - GUI Libraries

[https://github.com/allendang/giu

I prefer giu + zenity for tooling GUIs with either very few or very many elements (i.e. 100's). I use Flutter for when I want an attractive GUI of medium complexity.

FYI, they're using Dear ImGui. Either https://github.com/AllenDang/giu or https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go

I did poke around for a bit, but I really needed the tool, and I knew it would be days of work if I learned a new tool and hours if I stuck with what I knew.

My coworker Andrew did start a similar tool, which is here: https://github.com/andrewpmartinez/grid and uses https://github.com/AllenDang/giu for the UI.

Next time I need a feature I probably take a look at that and see what the model looks like and and how straightforward it is to work with.

To maintain my another GUI lib giu (https://github.com/AllenDang/giu), I used to update imgui manually time to time, and it always a pain in my ass.

I then used GIU (https://github.com/AllenDang/giu) which is a Go wrapper around IMGUI - I found major performance issues since my requirements are pretty extreme, I was plotting charts containing 1000's of points and the overhead of calling the underlying C libraries from Go was too much.