Deciding between Go or Rust for desktop applications

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  • fyne

    Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

    • Neither of them have GUI tooling for desktop applications comparable to Swift, Objective-C, Java, C#, C++.

    Taking that into account, Go would be preferable, as proven since the days of Xerox PARC, GC based languages (regardless of the actual GC algorithm) are much productive for GUI development.

    With this in mind, https://fyne.io/

  • tauri

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

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