macdriver
gotk4
macdriver | gotk4 | |
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13 | 7 | |
4,350 | 432 | |
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7.9 | 8.2 | |
about 2 months ago | 20 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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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
gotk4
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Go taking too much time building with imports
BTW, for GTK4 bindings you can use this: https://github.com/diamondburned/gotk4
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Go GUI Developer Survey Results
I've been using diamondburned's. They've also got some for Libadwaita separately.
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Emmanuele Bassi: Me, a C library developer that has been doing this for 15 years: Let's try and use Rust with GTK and GNOME to write an application [a month passes] Me: Wait, am I… enjoying… writing application code? That can't be right
Sure. My repo is here, the Gtk4 bindings are here, and the Libadwaita bindings are here. Note the version combination in my go.mod, as the latest versions of the Gtk4 bindings break the Libadwaita bindings.
- GTK4 Matrix Client
- Where to learn GTK from?
- Are there native bindings for native UI development with Go? Window, GTK, MacOS
- Is there is good GUI for Golang ?
What are some alternatives?
appify - Create a macOS Application from an executable (like a Go binary)
gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3
micromdm - Mobile Device Management server
fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
go-smc - Golang library to read and write the OSX System Management Controller (SMC)
gotk4-examples - Examples for writing GTK4 applications in Go
go-pmset - Go library to get OSX assertions, like the command line pmset -g assertions
govcl - Cross-platform Go/Golang GUI library.
goplay2 - Airplay 2 Receiver written in Go
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
ludo - A libretro frontend written in golang
gio - Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio)