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Is Go good for GUI?

Not so useful till now. In theory, Go is a general-purpose language; however, Google seems treating Go as a web and network language, not interested in developing an official GUI solution for Go.

Does Go have a GUI library?

native GUI and utility bindings. dlgs is a cross-platform library for displaying dialogs and input boxes. gform is an easy to use Windows GUI toolkit for Go. winc is a common library for Go GUI apps on Windows (based on gform).

Is Golang good for GUI development?

Honestly, writing a GUI application in Go is fine. For cross-platform applications, I’d suggest using Go bindings for GTK. For why you may not want to use Go for GUI applications, there aren’t many.

Can you build desktop apps with Golang?

We can build a desktop app with Go in any common Javascript framework using Wails. Wails has the ability to wrap Go Code and web frontend into a single binary.

Does Go support type inheritance?

Go does not support inheritance, however, it does support composition.

What is the best go GUI library for Windows?

winc is a common library for Go GUI apps on Windows (based on gform). glfw is a Go bindings for GLFW 3. go-gtk is a Go binding for GTK2. RenderView is an easy Go GUI wrapper for interactive manipulation of visual algorithms/backend code.

What is the best way to create a GUI in go?

A GUI can be created with a go package. There is no native support. There are several packages for making go gui’s. The most common are web-based and desktop-based. Many apps are going in the web-based direction, think Google apps or Cloud apps. One advantage of this is that apps will work on many different operating systems (Mac, Windows).

What is the difference between [govcl] and gxui?

[GoVCL] is a native GUI library based on Lazarus. GXUI is a Go cross platform UI library. MacDriver is a toolkit for working with Apple/Mac APIs and frameworks in Go. qt allows you to write Qt applications entirely in Go and makes deploying them later very easy. qt.go is a Qt5 binding which uses FFI instead of CGO.

What is the difference between NanoGUI and imgui-go?

imgui-go is a Go wrapper for Dear ImGui. giu is a GUI framework based on imgui-go. (Another similar one from the same auther, gimu, but for nucular.) NanoGUI.go is a golang port of NanoGUI.