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go-flutter

Flutter on Windows, MacOS and Linux - based on Flutter Embedding, Go and GLFW.

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What it is

Flutter on Windows, MacOS and Linux - based on Flutter Embedding, Go and GLFW.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-09-20 16:21:35 UTC to 2020-08-23 17:00:18 UTC.

0122018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 20182018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

11 sources
m_sahaf·Aug 23, 2020
If you're comfortable with the web stack and still want to stay lightweight, you can look into webview library[0]. I've used it with Go, and it also has bindings for other languages. It loads the platform's native browser with chroma-less window, just like an Electron app except perhaps lighter. Another option is to look into Flutter. There are many available iterations for desktop applications, one of them is the go-flutter[1]. [0] https://github.com/webview [1] https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/go-flutter
In Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?
satvikpendem·Apr 20, 2020
You should check out Flutter then, it compiles to native machine code for mobile and desktop (Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux are all supported with native compilation), and uses WASM for web. It's a much more performant solution than Electron. Only thing is the official Flutter desktop implementations are unstable for production, but there are unofficial implementations which are stable [0] [1]. You can use those until the official implementation is stable. You can also use Dart's FFI if you want but since it's compiled instead of interpreted like JS and Electron, you probably don't need to, the performance will be there. You also said you don't like the layout system, but there are packages for that [2]. Let me know what else you would find annoying, there are usually packages for most things. There are even algebraic data types in
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Dart through code generation. [0] https://github.com/flutter-rs/flutter-rs [1] https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/go-flutter [2] https://github.com/ReinBentdal/styled_widget
In Ask HN: 2020, Language and Framework for Cross Platform Dev (Especially Desktop)
hardwaresofton·Feb 4, 2019
I expect that relying on LLVM going forward will be the popular approach for Haskell and other languages (there's so much momentum behind LLVM and it's made to be built upon), it's fantastic to see people entering this space. Despite the amount of derision Javascript and the web-as-a-platform idea is met with, the amount of innovation is undeniable. I personally think the web is the best platform (at the very least, it's the devil almost everyone knows) -- it's already ubiquitous, has more-than-good-enough solutions for most things and is supported by very huge companies and open source naturally. One of the main hangups for those who dislike the web-as-a-platform idea spreading usually call out the terribleness of Javascript the language -- and though I think transpiled solutions like Typescript[0] and Elm[1]/Purescript[2] fix this issue
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, the introduction of WASM will finally completely obliterate this long-standing hangup. You want to write some other language for your JS frontend? Soon you'll be able to. JavaFX/QT/GTK/WxWidgets/etc people you had your chance (in the last decade or two) to create simple, cross-platform yet sufficiently feature full implementations and people are choosing bundling an entire browser to get away from the tools you're giving them. If someone develops a sufficient stripped down browser rendering interface or if projects like ion[3] take off, even more people (with relatively simple apps to write) will use the web platform I think. As WASM gets better, the "native UI & speed" island is going to continue to shrink, in my estimation. Of course you've also got approaches like Flutter out there trying to render every single pixel (!), with enough weight to actually make it happen and provide full sets of widgets and even work on a desktop embedder[4] (shame about the only viable language being dart though...). [0]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/ [1]: http://elm-lang.org/ [2]: http://www.purescript.org/ [3]: https://github.com/justinmichaud/ion [4]: https://github.com/Drakirus/go-flutter-desktop-embedder
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