macdriver
windigo
macdriver | windigo | |
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13 | 32 | |
4,350 | 350 | |
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7.9 | 6.5 | |
about 2 months ago | 8 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
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
windigo
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Longevity of Go
I'm writing native Windows apps in Go with Windigo, as a replacement for C++.
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Is Go appropriate to develop Linux Desktop app ?
I created a couple native Windows apps using Windigo, so it's clearly possible to do the same in Linux, probably with gotk3.
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The most helpful Go Packages
Windigo for low level and native Windows stuff has been extremely useful to me.
- Good project to do using Go?
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GoLang and VSCode errors are driving me mad
I also use Go with VSCode on Windows, and I develop a rather large project. If I change many things at the same time, it may hang, so I have to reload VSCode, but that's it. Nothing serious.
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Stable and native looking GUI tool for Go?
Fyne is just really ugly for me.. I'm trying to learn more about GIO lately (gioui.org) which seems to have a great potential. However you request is very simple: native Windows Gui. And there are few libraries for that: - https://github.com/gonutz/wui - https://github.com/lxn/walk - https://github.com/tadvi/winc - https://github.com/rodrigocfd/windigo
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Go: The language of cloud-native development - SD Times
In Windigo there are some specific implementations for x32 and x64 platforms, for example.
- A native Windows video playback application written in pure Go, using DirectX
- A native Windows video playback application, using DirectX
- What are the upsides and downsides of Go compared to C#?
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
govcl - Cross-platform Go/Golang GUI library.
go-smc - Golang library to read and write the OSX System Management Controller (SMC)
go-gui-projects - A list of Go GUI projects
go-pmset - Go library to get OSX assertions, like the command line pmset -g assertions
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
goplay2 - Airplay 2 Receiver written in Go
GlovePIE - The original creator stopped maintaining it and the original site went down. I have uploaded my copy so people can continue using it.
ludo - A libretro frontend written in golang
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).