NanoGUI vs Lorca

NanoGUI

By shibukawa

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Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go + HTML5 (by zserge)

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NanoGUI		Lorca
	Project
-	Mentions	10
172	Stars	7,939
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	4.2
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Go	Language	Go
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

NanoGUI

Posts with mentions or reviews of NanoGUI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning NanoGUI yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Lorca

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lorca. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

[Golang] Recommandation de bibliothèque d'interface utilisateur légère
6 projects | /r/enfrancais | 17 May 2023

Lorca 5.9k
Desktop apps with Go/Fiber?
3 projects | /r/golang | 22 Apr 2023
Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2022
Background story of the strukture/ide . An essay by Cheikh.
1 project | /r/golang | 23 Jul 2022

My pet project is a RAW photo editor that ships as a server, but also tries to provide a more "app" like experience on localhost (borrowing some principles from lorca).
wails.io - What's the catch?
6 projects | /r/golang | 15 Jul 2022

Wails 2 seems great. I need to have a another look at it for my pet project. I've used something closer to Lorca so far.
Creating JavaScript GUI and GO backend for multiplatform desktop app
8 projects | /r/golang | 1 May 2022
mature alternative for webview?
10 projects | /r/golang | 15 Feb 2022

See if https://github.com/zserge/lorca will work for you.
UI libraries/framework in pure Go to make an app
6 projects | /r/golang | 9 Mar 2021

Cross-platform, no cgo, there's github.com/zserge/lorca.
Golang Gui
1 project | /r/golang | 17 Feb 2021

Have a look at lorca or, if you'd rather mess around something more complex than a basic sample, my app (which doesn't use lorca but follows a similar approach).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing NanoGUI and Lorca you can also consider the following projects:

nuklear - This project provides Go bindings for nuklear.h — a small ANSI C GUI library.

webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).

qt - Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly

fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

go-astilectron - Build cross platform GUI apps with GO and HTML/JS/CSS (powered by Electron)

Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go

go-app - A package to build progressive web apps with Go programming language and WebAssembly.

ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.