Golang for FFI Flutter Plugins

1. flutter_rust_bridge

   1 56 4,725 9.9 Dart

   Flutter/Dart <-> Rust binding generator, feature-rich, but seamless and simple.

   

   Besides the usual suspects, Rust comes up in the discussion quite a bit. Funny enough, many FFI-based packages use Rust nowadays. Since I'm not experienced with Rust (beyond being able to write a hello world program and read Rust code with the help of AI), I cannot comment much on the viability of the language for that particular task. As far as I'm aware, flutter_rust_bridge is a popular choice. Other than C, C++, and Rust, I would imagine that Zig would be a good candidate as well. However, the language and its community are fairly small (as far as I know, Bun.sh is the only Zig's flagship project), so I'm not sure how many Flutter developers even know about it, let alone use it.

2. InfluxDB

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3. tailscale-android

   2 15 1,367 9.2 Kotlin

   Tailscale Android Client

   

   But I only saw the usability of Go as an alternative to Python for scripting/CLI application development, and obviously for backend development. Especially when it comes to gRPC (but that's a story for another time). I never looked at Go as an option for the development of FFI Flutter plugins, until sometime last year, I got acquainted with Tailscale. Tailscale has built its products around Go, including mobile applications. For reference, I'd strongly encourage you to check the source code of their Android client and the Swift library inside the main libtailscale repository. So, somebody did it... A successful company uses Golang for its clients.

4. tailscale

   3 1,050 23,530 9.9 Go

   The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

   

   But I only saw the usability of Go as an alternative to Python for scripting/CLI application development, and obviously for backend development. Especially when it comes to gRPC (but that's a story for another time). I never looked at Go as an option for the development of FFI Flutter plugins, until sometime last year, I got acquainted with Tailscale. Tailscale has built its products around Go, including mobile applications. For reference, I'd strongly encourage you to check the source code of their Android client and the Swift library inside the main libtailscale repository. So, somebody did it... A successful company uses Golang for its clients.

5. libtailscale

   4 2 230 6.3 Swift

   Tailscale C library

   

   But I only saw the usability of Go as an alternative to Python for scripting/CLI application development, and obviously for backend development. Especially when it comes to gRPC (but that's a story for another time). I never looked at Go as an option for the development of FFI Flutter plugins, until sometime last year, I got acquainted with Tailscale. Tailscale has built its products around Go, including mobile applications. For reference, I'd strongly encourage you to check the source code of their Android client and the Swift library inside the main libtailscale repository. So, somebody did it... A successful company uses Golang for its clients.

6. rss-it

   5 1 3 5.0 Dart

   Simple open-source and cross-platform RSS feed aggregator

   

   With that in mind, I set out to develop an RSS reader application called RSSit.

7. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

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