qt VS imgui-go

Compare qt vs imgui-go and see what are their differences.

qt

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

imgui-go

Go wrapper library for "Dear ImGui" (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) (by inkyblackness)
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qt

Posts with mentions or reviews of qt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.
  • GoLang — Simplifying Complexity “The Beginning”
    9 projects | dev.to | 27 May 2023
    . Web backend (with various frameworks available) . Web Assembly (one of them is vugu framework) . Microservices (some frameworks: Go Micro, Go Kit, Gizmo, Kite) . Fragments services (Term mentioned by @jeffotoni in a microservices discussion group) . Lambdas (FaaS example) . Client Server . Terminal applications (using the tview lib) . IoT (some frameworks) . Bots (some here) . Client Applications using Web technology . Desktop using Qt+QML, Native Win Lib (example Qt, Qt widgets, Qml) . Network Applications . Protocol applications . REST Applications . SOAP Applications . GraphQL Applications . RPC Applications . TCP Applications . gRPC Applications . WebSocket Applications . GopherJS (compiles Go to JavaScript)
  • bindings to GTK or QT
    2 projects | /r/golang | 14 May 2023
  • macOS Apps in Rust
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2023
    > https://github.com/therecipe/qt

    Do these not work? (I haven’t tried them - non-rhetorical question.)

  • My first idea that I want to write in Go
    4 projects | /r/golang | 25 Jan 2023
    Could try looking at wails. I don’t really ever do any GUI programming, especially in Go. But it and Fyne are probably gonna be your best, easiest route. Though, I do know there are also bindings for Qt
  • golang GUI packages
    13 projects | /r/golang | 28 Feb 2022
  • How do I get started with the Go Qt binding?
    14 projects | /r/golang | 27 May 2021
    I've settled on using the Qt binding, and it looks promising, but I can't even figure out how to get started. I can't even figure out where the Qt.Widget class is to make a basic window!
    14 projects | /r/golang | 27 May 2021
    there is also 3rd party examples list on their github pages https://github.com/therecipe/qt/wiki/Getting-Started#3rd-party-examplesdemosapplications
  • fyne Vs gio
    4 projects | /r/golang | 3 May 2021
  • Desktop applications discussion
    11 projects | /r/golang | 28 Apr 2021
  • State of Go GUI in 2021
    11 projects | /r/golang | 18 Feb 2021
    Do you know if therecipe/qt is still supported? I can see no activity recently.

imgui-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of imgui-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.
  • LTT creating their own Benchmark tool called MarkBench
    2 projects | /r/hardware | 13 Oct 2022
    FYI, they're using Dear ImGui. Either https://github.com/AllenDang/giu or https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go
  • Announce cimgui-go an auto-generated wrapper of Dear ImGui
    7 projects | /r/golang | 18 Aug 2022
    As the maintainer of https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go , I like this a lot.
    7 projects | /r/golang | 18 Aug 2022
    We had actually been discussing this for a while on this imgui-go discussion, but no-one had the time to start it. I'm sure many imgui-go contributers will be happy to join the new project
    7 projects | /r/golang | 18 Aug 2022
  • Desktop applications discussion
    11 projects | /r/golang | 28 Apr 2021
  • State of Go GUI in 2021
    11 projects | /r/golang | 18 Feb 2021
    Why are you people keep recommending fyne.io??? Don't waste your time, just download it's sample demo (1. go get fyne.io/fyne/v2/cmd/fyne_demo/ ; 2. fyne_demo) try it and see for yourself "how good it is" (it's not). Then download Dear ImGui (golangs bindings here: https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go) and compare the quality... it's not even funny how much better it is. So it's just baffling to see at every golang GUI thread people keep recommending Fyne, when alternatives like ImGui exist, which are just astronomically better. Those who recommend, do you even use it yourself or just keep repeating what others suggested somewhere else...?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing qt and imgui-go you can also consider the following projects:

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

sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

gio - Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio)

go-gtk - Go binding for GTK

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

NanoGUI

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

implot - Immediate Mode Plotting

ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.

Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go

gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3