Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by jchw on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:07AM
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The lead Wails developer has contributed a good deal of functionality and improvements to go-webview2, a library I wrote for interfacing with Windows WebView2 without needing CGo. While not a whole lot of people use go-webview2 directly (indeed, most people use it via Wails 2,) I am still glad that so many improvements made it upstream for whoever just wants direct bindings rather than a cross platform framework.
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Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by hogyncymraeg on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:02PM
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Hey there :-) Thanks for making both go-webview2 and winloader, and taking the time to review the PRs. That reminds me, I need to diff where we are at as I think we got out of sync.
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by jchw on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:47PM
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No worries; It shouldn’t be too bad. I would like to make some improvements to upstream go-webview2 when I get a chance; thanks to GitHub Actions, I bet I could implement some proper testing, which would be nice.
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by tmp_anon_22 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:17AM
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What happened to go-webview1?
Re:Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
by jchw on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:53PM
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Webview2 is the name of the Windows component that go-webview2 wraps. It’s a little bit confusing, because go-webview2 also happens to export an interface compatible with webview/webview, which is another library (although not Go-specific.)
edit: if you’re wondering why Webview2 is webview2, the reason for that is because Webview2 is based off of Chromium Edge and webview from WinRT is based off of MSHTML Edge. And if you are wondering why not support that, I considered it, but it’s somewhat harder to do, because while Webview2 is mostly pure COM interfaces, WinRT Webview uses… WinRT. Which is a bit more complicated. Avoiding CGo for that would probably involve worse blackmagic, possibly requiring some assembler to mimic what’s going on in WinRT.