imgui-go
Go wrapper library for "Dear ImGui" (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) (by inkyblackness)
qt
Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly (by therecipe)
| imgui-go | qt | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 12 | |
| 797 | 10,227 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.3 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C++ | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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.
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LTT creating their own Benchmark tool called MarkBench
FYI, they're using Dear ImGui. Either https://github.com/AllenDang/giu or https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go
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Announce cimgui-go an auto-generated wrapper of Dear ImGui
As the maintainer of https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go , I like this a lot.
- Desktop applications discussion
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State of Go GUI in 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...?
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A Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
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.
qt
Posts with mentions or reviews of qt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.
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GoLang — Simplifying Complexity “The Beginning”
. Web backend (with various frameworks available) . Web Assembly (one of them is vugu framework) . Microservices (some frameworks: Go Micro, Go Kit, Gizmo, Kite) . Fragments services (Term mentioned by @jeffotoni in a microservices discussion group) . Lambdas (FaaS example) . Client Server . Terminal applications (using the tview lib) . IoT (some frameworks) . Bots (some here) . Client Applications using Web technology . Desktop using Qt+QML, Native Win Lib (example Qt, Qt widgets, Qml) . Network Applications . Protocol applications . REST Applications . SOAP Applications . GraphQL Applications . RPC Applications . TCP Applications . gRPC Applications . WebSocket Applications . GopherJS (compiles Go to JavaScript)
- bindings to GTK or QT
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macOS Apps in Rust
> https://github.com/therecipe/qt
Do these not work? (I haven’t tried them - non-rhetorical question.)
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My first idea that I want to write in Go
Could try looking at wails. I don’t really ever do any GUI programming, especially in Go. But it and Fyne are probably gonna be your best, easiest route. Though, I do know there are also bindings for Qt
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Qt Bindings for go not found
Well, of course it does exist, you cannot use github URL like that, this one works https://github.com/therecipe/qt/tree/master/widgets.
- golang GUI packages
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Want to create a non-bloated linux app
I know of https://github.com/therecipe/qt, but I've no experience using it, so not sure how well it works. But normally if you feel handy with Go, I guess it should be easier than switching your development stack to C++.
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How do I get started with the Go Qt binding?
there is also 3rd party examples list on their github pages https://github.com/therecipe/qt/wiki/Getting-Started#3rd-party-examplesdemosapplications
- fyne Vs gio
- Desktop applications discussion
What are some alternatives?
When comparing imgui-go and qt you can also consider the following projects:
gio - Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio)
fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
implot - Immediate Mode Plotting
go-gtk - Go binding for GTK
easy_profiler - Lightweight profiler library for c++
nuklear - This project provides Go bindings for nuklear.h — a small ANSI C GUI library.
awesome-dear-imgui - A collection of awesome dear imgui bindings, extensions and resources
NanoGUI
browser - Package browser provides helpers to open files, readers, and urls in a browser window.
ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.