It's a good sign that unlike fyne, this library passed the very first test I threw at it: rendering some CJK text. Fyne can't do that unless you give it one custom font to render everything in — well, good luck finding one satisfactory font encompassing all commonly used scripts around the world, not to mention emojis. Which means fyne is immediately dead to me whenever I'm building anything with a remote chance of user-generated/web content and/or localization.
Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
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Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#32A 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.
The best option is probably Flutter right now: https://flutter.dev/ If you don't mind writing the UI native, sharing only business logic code, Kotlin is an option: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html#kotlin-multip... Kotlin also can do the UI if you use Compose: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/ ... however, iOS support is still in alpha, and Web is "experimental". If you're not willing t…
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best option is probably Flutter right now: https://flutter.dev/ If you don't mind writing the UI native, sharing only business logic code, Kotlin is an option: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html#kotlin-multip... Kotlin also can do the UI if you use Compose: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/ ... however, iOS support is still in alpha, and Web is "experimental". If you're not willing t…
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That's unfortunate. I actually liked Flutter.
Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#34Interesting that the WASM demo on the front page just render a black rectangle where the text is supposed to be on my fairly vanilla Windows 10 PC with Chrome (it rendered fine in Chrome on my Android phone).
Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#35Go newbie here. Can anybody elaborate on this piece of the docs? """ You might be thinking that it would be more usual to have an ops.Add(ColorOp{Color: red}) method instead of using op.ColorOp{Color: red}.Add(ops). It’s like this so that the Add method doesn’t have to take an interface-typed argument, which would often require an allocation to call. This is a key aspect of Gio’s “zero allocation” design. """ Why wou…
This has to do with how Go handles dynamic typing via interfaces and how structs fit into that. When a function takes an interface type as an argument, and you pass a pure struct to it, it creates a wrapper around it (this is the allocation referred to in your quote) which is simply a pair of pointers, one being a type/vtable pointer and the other being a pointer to the struct's data. Doing it this way allows code to…
How do generics change this? Can a type bound on a generic work like a static interface implementation specification, and recover the cost of wrapping the struct?
Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best option is probably Flutter right now: https://flutter.dev/ If you don't mind writing the UI native, sharing only business logic code, Kotlin is an option: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html#kotlin-multip... Kotlin also can do the UI if you use Compose: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/ ... however, iOS support is still in alpha, and Web is "experimental". If you're not willing t…
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I think they are just outsourced
Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best option is probably Flutter right now: https://flutter.dev/ If you don't mind writing the UI native, sharing only business logic code, Kotlin is an option: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html#kotlin-multip... Kotlin also can do the UI if you use Compose: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/ ... however, iOS support is still in alpha, and Web is "experimental". If you're not willing t…
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Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#38It's a good sign that unlike fyne, this library passed the very first test I threw at it: rendering some CJK text. Fyne can't do that unless you give it one custom font to render everything in — well, good luck finding one satisfactory font encompassing all commonly used scripts around the world, not to mention emojis. Which means fyne is immediately dead to me whenever I'm building anything with a remote chance of u…
Noto sans is pretty good in this regard.
Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#39Re: Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
#40It's a good sign that unlike fyne, this library passed the very first test I threw at it: rendering some CJK text. Fyne can't do that unless you give it one custom font to render everything in — well, good luck finding one satisfactory font encompassing all commonly used scripts around the world, not to mention emojis. Which means fyne is immediately dead to me whenever I'm building anything with a remote chance of u…
Noto sans is pretty good in this regard.
Noto Sans isn't limited to Latin — it supports Cyrillic and Greek as well — but immediately fails my CJK test. Or Arabic, or various other scripts used by half of the world.