Ask HN: Cross-platform GUI apps in 2024

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  • I haven't personally used it. However, I did watch a guy build from scratch his desktop client for his VPN using wails (https://wails.io/) + Golang. It actually went pretty smoothly and quickly. And he did it for mac, windows, and linux. Here's a link to his project since it's open source: https://github.com/tunnels-is/nicelandvpn-desktop

    When I did build a production app with Electron (a few years ago granted) I ran into distribution difficulties as well. It's doable, but it was a pain. Specifically what was a pain was auto-update.

  • app-center

    App Store for Ubuntu made with Flutter ๐Ÿงก ๐Ÿ’™

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • flet

    Flet enables developers to easily build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python. No frontend experience required.

  • I just learned of Flet (https://flet.dev) which seems interesting for Python. I may try this as well.

  • fyne

    Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

  • Uno Platform

    Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

  • also UNO Platform (C#) which is suitable for simple or complex cross platform business applications : https://platform.uno/

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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