Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go

Post by robterrell » Sat, May 18, 2024, 3:59 PM UTC

ricardobeat wrote: post #19

bsaul wrote: post #2

A bit off-topic, but what's the best method to build cross-platform mobile & web apps nowadays ? I'm talking either business logic + UI , or just business logic ? like gomobile, rust, typescript, etc ? At some point i thought about using typescript for all business logic, as it seemed the most portable tech, but i realized there's no good way to have decent performance running javascript on iOS.

My team achieved better than native performance using RN when rewriting a very large iOS app. And that was in 2018, before Hermes and a lot of other optimizations. It takes some careful usage of requestIdleCallback and avoiding doing work in the UI thread but it is not rocket science. You do have to avoid a lot of the going advice and bloated libraries / frameworks though.

Post by obdev » Sat, May 18, 2024, 4:20 PM UTC

gonzo41 wrote: post #89

shrubble wrote: post #30

The amazing thing is that 30 years ago there were cross platform toolkits like Neuron Data and the toolkit under OpenOffice(called StarOffice originally), and yet today the options are still fragmented and imperfect. We have far better compilers and even languages for cross-platform work, so it should be easier by now.

I'm still super disappointed that javafx died.

Post by bugbuddy » Sat, May 18, 2024, 4:27 PM UTC

zackbrown wrote: post #90

shrubble wrote: post #30

The amazing thing is that 30 years ago there were cross platform toolkits like Neuron Data and the toolkit under OpenOffice(called StarOffice originally), and yet today the options are still fragmented and imperfect. We have far better compilers and even languages for cross-platform work, so it should be easier by now.

Building a cross-platform GUI toolkit takes an incredible amount of work & time, especially at the systems level.[0] A robust cross-platform ecosystem for the underlying programming language is a necessary but insufficient piece of the puzzle. Given the proliferation of HTML and WebView/web-tech wrappers (Electron, Tauri, React Native etc.) there are now enough "good enough" solutions that most organizations that wou…

Post by PhilippGille » Sat, May 18, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

999900000999 wrote: post #108

I built a small app in Go using Fyne. Never again. Both Gio and Fyne lack tons of polish and features Flutter provides. I built my core logic in Golang, and then decided to wrap it in an Android app. The GUI feels like it came out of 2003 with limited ways to fix it.

Post by Longhanks » Sat, May 18, 2024, 4:37 PM UTC

mort96 wrote: post #65

diskdance wrote: post #60

Seemingly it's using a to render everything just like Flutter on Web, which is known to have problems with accessibility and feel non-native.

I mean it's not primarily a web app framework, it's a native GUI toolkit which has a web back-end.