Gio looks really neat (from the demos), I will definitely try it out as I have been looking for a nice way to build desktop app for quite some time.
Other projects that I am considering to use: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails (looks very decent and I would be happy to use Vue.js for a UI bit) and Flutter with desktop support (https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding, in this case it's not directly using Go but you can bind them together).
If this would mean that I can just use Go for everything - that's great but the only concern for me I guess is just the availability of examples and widgets. I don't consider myself a good UI designer so relying on libraries is important :)
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flutter-desktop-embedding
Experimental plugins for Flutter for Desktop
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| Feb 2018 | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| Mar 2018 | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Apr 2018 | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2018 | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jun 2018 | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Jul 2018 | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2018 | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Sep 2018 | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Oct 2018 | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2018 | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2018 | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Jan 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| Feb 2019 | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mar 2019 | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2019 | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2019 | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2019 | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2019 | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2019 | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2019 | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2019 | 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Read the project’s introduction
Desktop Embedding for Flutter
This project was originally created to develop Windows, macOS, and Linux
embeddings of Flutter. That work has
since become part of Flutter, and all that remains here are experimental,
early-stage desktop
plugins.
If you want to get started with Flutter on desktop, the place to start is now
the Flutter documentation, rather than this project.
You will already need to have followed the instructions there to get an application
running on desktop before using any of the plugins here.
Feedback
Do not file issues about Flutter for desktop here. Since the
embeddings have all moved to the Flutter project, the place for desktop bugs
and feature requests is now the Flutter issue
tracker.
For bug reports and feature requests related to the plugins in this repository,
please file issues here.
Repository Structure
The plugins directory contains all the plugins. See
its README to get started.
Caveats
This is not an officially supported Google product.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
39 sourcesI hope Flutter for desktop will prevail.
https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
But I think they will focus on mobile first so the time when we can use Flutter for desktop programming is still far far far away.
Also you forgot, PyQt and PySide: easy but terrible performance.
In Electron 6.0(I'm the Flutter TL.)
As a target platform or as a development platform?
We don't support targeting Linux out of the box today, but we support Linux as a first-class development platform (it's what I use). That said, we do work on Linux, and if you're willing to do a bit of work, you can use it to write Linux apps. If you want to target X11, you'll need something like https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding whereas if you want to target the hardware directly, you can do something like https://medium.com/flutter-io/flutter-on-raspberry-pi-mostly... .
In Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and DesktopI'll add a fifth link since Google is actually working on a desktop embedder for Flutter themselves.
[5]: https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
In Asterius – Haskell to WebAssembly CompilerThere's already work going on in that direction https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
In React as a UI RuntimeGoogle is already experimenting with using flutter for desktop
https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
In A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for DesktopI had the same issue.
"Go Flutter desktop embedder". Well, that's that? Click (https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Custom-Flutter-Engin...)
"The Flutter Engine is window toolkit agnostic. " What's flutter engine? Click (https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding)
"The purpose of this project is to support building applications that use Flutter " Ok, but what's Flutter? Click (https://github.com/flutter/flutter)
"Flutter is Google’s mobile app SDK for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time."
OOOOH. Ok.
In A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for DesktopI am confused. The readme says, "Disclaimer: Despite being very similar in the end goal, This project doesn't compete with this awesome one[1]."
But it is competing, isn't it?
[1] https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
In A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for DesktopI am not c++ developer myself, so can't help on the namespacing decision, although a quick search on a project made by google, it seems they don't although I assume it will change from team/company to team/company who might have their own guide styles:
https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding/search?q...
having said that, the question here is not who is right but the unprofessional behaviour shown by the interviewer.
I'd suggest to write to the company's HR or even to one of their c level managers and tell them about this situation.
I think it's hasn't been the first time and that even this toxic behaviour is not a surprise within his coworkers.
In Ask HN: Scolded on a job interview for not namespacingFlutter does this. https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding looks for your local version of chrome. Curious if anyone has thoughts on it.
In WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOSApplication That Use Flutter on Windows, MacOS, and Linux
1 points · Open discussionThis is what the flutter-desktop-embedding [0] project is trying to address.
[0] https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
In Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0There's Flutter desktop: https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
And web: https://medium.com/flutter-io/hummingbird-building-flutter-f...
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