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I stopped trusting Google's judgement of products when they killed both Reader and Wave.
Reader extension(s) for Chrome are fine replacements.
Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
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Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
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Now there is a generation of software developers who grew up with web technology, and they aren’t old enough to recall the days of native apps - they don’t know any way other than HTML.
Lol. One of good cross platform example is Calibre [1], built with Python and Qt. And it’s the only one I carried with me from Windows XP/10 to macOS, through Linux. Another is Sublime Text. [1]: https://calibre-ebook.com/
If I'm reading this correctly, Sublime Text wrote their own custom cross-platform layer [1]. Well that's one way to do it!
[1]: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/is-qt-framwork-is-use-used-i...
Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#223Have been using gioui to build streaming apps. It’s very easy and upgrading is always easy because it’s golang and the core devs take it seriously when they make a change.
When I need a web gui I use a gioui plugin system here: https://github.com/gioui-plugins/gio-plugins
WebViews work on web, desktop and mobile. It’s amazing. Deep linking also so you can send out a link to an email or Monike notification and the users app will open the gio gui in the right part of the gui.
It also has notifications and share extensions for all OS’s. It’s really a complete system. I can’t believe how much devs complain about things not being easy , when it’s all there. I definitely share the feelings that’s it’s so hard to support so many OS’s, but it’s the world we live in - plurality.
I like how I can do all of this with only golang , instead of switching between bits and bobs.
I always write my golang backend to work with gio and html.
So if I need SEO or video playback I can still do it in a web view and also keep googles seo happy for the gio web. I just use Hugo and feed it markdown. This is what Google SEO sees.
Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#224Experience report: Impossible to write any serious complex application in this. Lacks components for basic things everyone gets for free on other platforms, things like video, maps or rich text components. Nor does if offer any clear easy path to add them yourself. Breaking API changes every few months. No way to theme something. Immediate mode graphics are great until you need to start managing some complex state, t…
You can write anything with it.
V0.6 made your issues much less tricky.
Also there is a Material Design theme. And also light and dark.
Here is an excellent example of a gioui app that has light / dark with a custom theme.
https://github.com/chapar-rest/chapar
If you’re on MAC or Windows it’s just “ go run .”.
If you wanted text keening or text sweeping around an arc or RTL / LRT it can do it thanks to github.com/go-text/typesetting
Complex widgets for Calendar spinners or diagrams are out there on GitHub. An effort to bring these together is lacking, and I reckon that if all these things weee brought together it would definitely encourage more developers to dive in.