Re:Gio – write immediate-mode GUI programs in Go
by rob74 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:26AM
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I've been following the evolution of GUI bindings/native solutions in Go for a while now, and unfortunately all attempts at "Go-native" GUIs like this one have stalled long before they could achieve even a small fraction of the functionality of "established" frameworks like Qt or GTK (although I'm not sure that's even a goal for this project). That said, I wish them (and the other projects which are still active) good luck...
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Re:Gio – write immediate-mode GUI programs in Go
by jonathanstrange on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:03AM
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The Fyne developers are still very active. I don't think it's useful for more than small utilities in its current state, but I hope they'll implement some well-working multiline rich text editing soon. This is the area in which most homebrewn GUIs tend to fail. Rich text editing is surprisingly hard to get right and reasonably platform-compliant.
Re:Gio – write immediate-mode GUI programs in Go
by daenney on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:18AM
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It’s definitely a hard thing. Gio is still actively developed and it can already do useful things.
On the not 100% native side there’s Fyne which seems to only depend on xorg development headers. It can do a lot.