Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies

Post by leeman2016 » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 1:24 PM UTC

mnafees wrote: post #61

leeman2016 wrote: post #51

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I actually did something similar: business logic and most things written in Go, but the menu bar or tray icon done in native APIs like Win32 and Gtk. It was surprisingly very good experience overall. I have tried so many ways around it before settling for that.

Very interesting! How would the Electron and Go processes communicate in this case? Did you expose a Unix socket or TCP port perhaps?

Ohh, my apologies for the confusion. I was just using Go as a menubar/tray icon application (with some OS-specific bindings) and meant to say that its performance was excellent. No electron involved

Post by rubymamis » Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

diath wrote: post #59

throwup238 wrote: post #31

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It takes half a day to implement proper hot reload in QtQuick, which also has all the reactive features. Even less now that AI can just write it for you, and it’ll be more performant than Vite dev builds. Coming to desktop app development from the web, I’ve got most of the same conveniences I’m used to like GammaRay as the inspector. The only real difference is I’m willing to wade through cmake and linking errors. Ev…

QML is not native, PySide uses Python. If you pick either of those, you lose native controls and low level language for performance, so again, may as well use web-based tech. Especially that HTML/CSS support significantly more styling/animating options than QML.

Qt Quick components are just C++ classes[1].

[1] https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative

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