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lxn / walk

walk

A Windows GUI toolkit for the Go Programming Language

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What it is

A Windows GUI toolkit for the Go Programming Language

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Where it is used

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-03-28 17:16:08 UTC to 2024-05-25 09:03:33 UTC.

01232012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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kjksf·May 19, 2020
A channel can be used as future / promise but that's not what it is and that's not how it's used by majority of Go programs. Channel is what it says it is: a way to send data between goroutines. Also, Go works just fine for UI code, out of the box. See https://github.com/lxn/walk for one of many examples. You just lock main goroutine with runtime.LockOSThread() to its thread and that's your UI thread and marshall code that touches UI to UI thread. Which is the same thing you must do in C# (or any other language). See https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/LockOSThread
In What Color Is Your Function? (2015)
vram22·Nov 10, 2016
Here is one - WALK: https://github.com/lxn/walk A friend had used it in a commercial project, and IIRC he said it worked okay. Not tried it myself yet. I think it wraps the Win32 GUI SDK but also has a declarative mode [1] (at least for GUI widget layout) on top, or something like that - only looked at some sample code briefly. [1] meaning you can declare your GUI layout declaratively, but in Go code - it does not need XML or some other language or markup format like some declarative approaches do - IIRC. I actually wish the Go team had built support for some / many of the major GUI toolkits on major OS's (at least) from near the start of Go's development. I realize that there could have been, or still could be, some issues with that, due to differences between Go and (C and C++) [2] models (object file format, calling conventions, stack
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and heap layout, etc. - basically compiler and compiler-output-related stuff), and hence it may not be easy to create bindings from the former to the latter. Not familiar with this area. [2] since many of the major GUI toolkits are natively written in C or C++, so a Go wrapper would need to bind to them. Not complaining though, I know what they (the Go team and community) have already done is a huge achievement anyway.
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