macdriver
topframe
| macdriver | topframe | |
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| 13 | 3 | |
| 4,350 | 349 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.9 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Go | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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
topframe
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Towards the Personal Potential of Software
Along the way, I released a few demos for macdriver to make clear the possibilities and provide reference examples. One of them I spun off into a standalone project called topframe, which is also serving as a test bed for how we are doing cross-platform support. More on that in a moment.
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🧢 Stefan's Web Weekly #14
👉 Check out Topframe
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Customize your computer screen with HTML
Anybody that knows how to mess around with HTML can now mess around with their desktop computing experience. Topframe is an open source tool that lets you customize your desktop screen using HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
What are some alternatives?
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The-Lost-Ball - A 3D runner game inspired from Subway Surfers
go-pmset - Go library to get OSX assertions, like the command line pmset -g assertions
forgit - :zzz: A utility tool powered by fzf for using git interactively.
goplay2 - Airplay 2 Receiver written in Go
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ludo - A libretro frontend written in golang
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