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by jayd16 2224 days ago
Are there any popular, idiomatic Go UI frameworks I could explore?
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You can try your luck with https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#gui

I explored the landscape earlier this year when I was building a GUI version of a CLI tool written in Go. I was throughly disappointed by all the “native Go” and non-webview options — narrow selection of widgets with basic functionality missing, UIs ranging from lack of polish to horrendous looking (that makes Java GUIs look like godsend), lots of bugs, etc. I ended up using the Qt binding which, despite its own share of problems, at least worked fairly reliably and didn’t constantly get in my way in every way imaginable: https://github.com/therecipe/qt