macdriver
gio
macdriver | gio | |
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13 | 62 | |
4,350 | 1,409 | |
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7.9 | 9.2 | |
about 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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macdriver
- Are there native bindings for native UI development with Go? Window, GTK, MacOS
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Towards the Personal Potential of Software
The first big release of the year was the macdriver project, which got a significant response on Hacker News. It gives us Objective-C and Apple framework bindings for Go, letting you build simple Apple apps entirely from Go. That wasn't possible before, so it was a little exciting, but it was early. The native Go APIs included for commonly used Foundation and Cocoa classes were far from complete. They could still be used if you knew what you were doing, but with an ideal of total coverage of Apple frameworks, that wouldn't be enough. There were also unresolved issues just deciding how to best manage memory and pointers, which I knew would fall on me to figure out and take some time.
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Apple API schemas for code generation and more
Even less common are schemas for non-web APIs. In 2016, Electron started releasing a JSON schema of all their APIs that allowed me to build a bridge to use Electron APIs from Go. I had that prototype in mind when I started the macdriver project that was released a couple months ago. Right now we're manually wrapping Apple framework classes with Go types so you can write native Apple platform applications that look like this:
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Customize your computer screen with HTML
It started as a demo for macdriver, but over the last week or so I've been making a standalone version. 90% of that time was playing around with it while trying to make demos.
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Native Mac APIs for Go
Done https://github.com/progrium/macdriver/issues/12
gio
- Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed
- Gio UI – Cross-Platform GUI for Go
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Bare Metal Rust in Android
> At least with a language like Go, it somewhat makes sense, and has been attempted: https://gioui.org/
Gio UI is an immediate-mode UI, and immediate-mode UIs map very nicely to Rust. egui is quite easy to use. https://www.egui.rs/
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net/http extension to exchange structs
I've been writing a WASM app using gio & I found myself wanting for a simplified web library. In addition I drew some inspiration from leptos server functions. A friend of mine mentioned it has some similarities with next.js
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htmx/Go experiences?
I am building the same but with golang and https://gioui.org/
- Ideas for GUI libraries?
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Gonum & Gonum/Plot v0.13.0
This release of Gonum/plot is in sync with Gonum-v0.13.0 and updates the vg/vggio backend to the latest Gio API.
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Are there any popular computer applications written in Golang?
Historically, C++. Today, (unfortunately) a lot of (non-game) desktop apps are written in HTML/CSS/JS using Electron. There are projects like Fyne and GIO that aim to make Go a viable language for building large-scale performant desktop apps. My open-source hobby project Supersonic is a music player app built using Fyne.
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Is Go appropriate to develop Linux Desktop app ?
gioui.org
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gomobile no longer maintained
It’s actually extremely easy, if you use one of the actively developed options like https://fyne.io or https://gioui.org for example. Flutter’s Dart may help with real-time hacking of UI but Go produces better code in the long run!
What are some alternatives?
appify - Create a macOS Application from an executable (like a Go binary)
fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
micromdm - Mobile Device Management server
imgui-go - Go wrapper library for "Dear ImGui" (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui)
go-smc - Golang library to read and write the OSX System Management Controller (SMC)
go-flutter - Flutter on Windows, MacOS and Linux - based on Flutter Embedding, Go and GLFW.
go-pmset - Go library to get OSX assertions, like the command line pmset -g assertions
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
goplay2 - Airplay 2 Receiver written in Go
fyne-x - Community extensions to the cross platform GUI in Go based on Material Design
ludo - A libretro frontend written in golang
giu - Cross platform rapid GUI framework for golang based on Dear ImGui.