gotk3 vs ui

gotk3

Go bindings for GTK3 (by gotk3)

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Platform-native GUI library for Go. (by andlabs)

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gotk3		ui
	Project
23	Mentions	6
2,027	Stars	8,320
1.3%	Growth	-
5.4	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Go	Language	Go
ISC License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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gotk3

Posts with mentions or reviews of gotk3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

[Golang] Recommandation de bibliothèque d'interface utilisateur légère
6 projects | /r/enfrancais | 17 May 2023

Gotk3 1.3k
Is Go appropriate to develop Linux Desktop app ?
7 projects | /r/golang | 11 Apr 2023

gotk3 does the job, and is well documented.
Golang GUI
3 projects | /r/golang | 30 Mar 2023

Go gtk3 bindings are very nice https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3
Go taking too much time building with imports
3 projects | /r/golang | 26 Feb 2023

I wanted to try the GTK bindings for Go, so I did all the steps for importing an external module: go mod init "test/gtk" go mod tidy go get "https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3"
I want to create a simple menu based game. What framework would you recommend?
2 projects | /r/golang | 14 Oct 2022

So it should be simple as buttons+images+some sounds. The purpose to create this game is fun, but mostly to learn golang better. There are a lot of options now. I suppose it should be https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3 But, well, maybe you know better framework to use?
React and Go for desktop app
2 projects | /r/golang | 28 Jul 2022

gotk3 is a good one
golang GUI packages
13 projects | /r/golang | 28 Feb 2022

gotk3 https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3
Twenty Years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg [audio]
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2022

There are definitely libraries, such as bindings to GTK: https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3 or Win32: https://github.com/rodrigocfd/windigo
The point remains that it is possible to do these things without async/await, but Go isn’t frequently used to develop native UIs, most likely because the kind of visual UI builder tools used in Visual Studio or Android Studio have never had an equivalent funded for use with Go, due to lack of commercial support for that use case. Beyond that, web gui frameworks are immensely popular these days, further removing motivation to really “make gui happen” in Go, but there are niche use cases out there, as evidenced by the existence of libraries.
Go GTK on Windows
4 projects | /r/golang | 9 Dec 2021

I'm trying to use gotk3 (https://github.com/gotk3/gotk3). The first issue I got was with pkg-config not being in the PATH environment variable. Cool, I fixed that. Now, I get errors about gio, glib, and gobject not being found in the pkg-config search path.
Cross compiling GTK for Windows?
1 project | /r/golang | 14 Nov 2021

I'm trying to build an app using gotk (cgo bindings for GTK), but I'm having trouble compiling it for Windows (I'm on Linux)

ui

Posts with mentions or reviews of ui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-14.

Stable and native looking GUI tool for Go?
10 projects | /r/golang | 14 May 2022

You could check out andlabs UI - the functionality is a little limited but it uses system components. https://github.com/andlabs/ui
Are there native bindings for native UI development with Go? Window, GTK, MacOS
7 projects | /r/golang | 10 Nov 2021

There is this https://github.com/andlabs/ui but it doesn't seem to have been touched in quite a while.
Is there is good GUI for Golang ?
18 projects | /r/golang | 12 Aug 2021

I would recommend https://github.com/andlabs/ui for a beautiful cross-platform (desktop), native UI, and https://fyne.io for a really simple, intuitive, easy-to-use UI library with a great community that works on all platforms including mobile
how to create a native toolkit for golang?
2 projects | /r/golang | 23 Jan 2021

https://github.com/andlabs/ui https://bitbucket.com/rj/goey
Lightweight GUI cross platform to show some data
1 project | /r/golang | 15 Jan 2021

I would suggest https://github.com/andlabs/ui

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gotk3 and ui you can also consider the following projects:

go-gtk - Go binding for GTK

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

webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).

Lorca - Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go + HTML5

gotk4 - Autogenerated GTK4 bindings for Go

sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

nuklear - This project provides Go bindings for nuklear.h — a small ANSI C GUI library.

goqt - Golang bindings to the Qt cross-platform application framework.

robotgo - RobotGo, Go Native cross-platform RPA and GUI automation @vcaesar