winlamb VS gio

Compare winlamb vs gio and see what are their differences.

winlamb

A lightweight modern C++11 library for Win32 API, using lambdas to handle Windows messages. (by rodrigocfd)

gio

Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio) (by gioui)
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winlamb gio
14 62
317 1,379
- 4.4%
4.6 9.2
9 months ago 20 days ago
C++ Go
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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winlamb

Posts with mentions or reviews of winlamb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.

gio

Posts with mentions or reviews of gio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.
  • Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024
  • Bare Metal Rust in Android
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
    > At least with a language like Go, it somewhat makes sense, and has been attempted: https://gioui.org/

    Gio UI is an immediate-mode UI, and immediate-mode UIs map very nicely to Rust. egui is quite easy to use. https://www.egui.rs/

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
    I didn't bash Java/Kotlin. In fact, I have written few android apps in Kotlin, Java and I also have fiddled with Jetpack compose, JNI and NDK (I have also played with mpv's Opengl/Vulkan's rendering on Android if that matters to you). I don't want to share the projects of mine because i don't want to reveal my identity.

    > https://gioui.org/

    I know that tailscale's android application is written in it but i don't think gioui is great for android apps.

    > Tell me you've never done any Android development, without telling me...All this Java/Kotlin bashing is getting really old, especially for a forum like this one.

    Ok, this one hurts. Why are you attacking me instead of defending your stance. All are allowed to have opinions and I am allowed to have one(It's sad to explain this to someone on forum like this one). I dream of Linux-desktop kinda situation where you can program in any language you want, where you are not hindered by any platform/framework, where you have complete freedom and where you don't want to be bothered/(vendor locked-in) by Bigcorps(looking at you Google services framework).

    > write GUIs in a non-GC language like Rust which _has_ to run on what's essentially a Java VM (ART).

    Haha, non-GC languages power the GUIs on Android fyi. Jetpack compose is powered by Skia. Chromium is powered by Skia. Skia is C++.

    Please do your own research before commenting low-effort replies.

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
    Tell me you've never done any Android development, without telling me...

    This is such a low-effort "take" without any effort to justify _why_ you'd want something like this. There's a high amount of impedance mismatch trying to write GUIs in a non-GC language like Rust which _has_ to run on what's essentially a Java VM (ART).

    At least with a language like Go, it somewhat makes sense, and has been attempted: https://gioui.org/

    All this Java/Kotlin bashing is getting really old, especially for a forum like this one.

  • net/http extension to exchange structs
    6 projects | /r/golang | 9 Jul 2023
    I've been writing a WASM app using gio & I found myself wanting for a simplified web library. In addition I drew some inspiration from leptos server functions. A friend of mine mentioned it has some similarities with next.js
  • htmx/Go experiences?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 8 Jul 2023
    I am building the same but with golang and https://gioui.org/
  • Ideas for GUI libraries?
    9 projects | /r/golang | 10 Jun 2023
  • Gonum & Gonum/Plot v0.13.0
    2 projects | /r/golang | 12 May 2023
    This release of Gonum/plot is in sync with Gonum-v0.13.0 and updates the vg/vggio backend to the latest Gio API.
  • Are there any popular computer applications written in Golang?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 8 May 2023
    Historically, C++. Today, (unfortunately) a lot of (non-game) desktop apps are written in HTML/CSS/JS using Electron. There are projects like Fyne and GIO that aim to make Go a viable language for building large-scale performant desktop apps. My open-source hobby project Supersonic is a music player app built using Fyne.
  • Is Go appropriate to develop Linux Desktop app ?
    7 projects | /r/golang | 11 Apr 2023
    gioui.org

What are some alternatives?

When comparing winlamb and gio you can also consider the following projects:

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

imgui-go - Go wrapper library for "Dear ImGui" (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui)

go-flutter - Flutter on Windows, MacOS and Linux - based on Flutter Embedding, Go and GLFW.

Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go

fyne-x - Community extensions to the cross platform GUI in Go based on Material Design

giu - Cross platform rapid GUI framework for golang based on Dear ImGui.

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

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

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

shadcn/ui - Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source.

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

gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3