wails

If Rust is too much of an adventure, maybe you'll find Go easier. Wails [1] is great if perhaps a bit more rough round the edges. Because it's go, package sizes are 10mb+ but nothing like Electron 30mb+ 1. https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

There are some technologies like this. I'm going to look into Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

I explored couple of methods to develope desktop/mobile GUI with Go a few weeks ago. These are some of them: 1) Fyne (https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne) Popular. Native functionalities like trays, etc. Mobile app possible. Looks okay. 2) Gio (https://gioui.org/) Looks okay. Customisable. Tailscale Mobile app is made with this. 3) Wails (https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) Easy WebView for Go. Lacks native functionalities. 4) Sciter (https://sciter.com) embedded in Go Haven't explored much. 5) Giu (https://github.com/AllenDang/giu) Based on Dear ImGui. Doesn't look very polished. P.S. I settled on Gio for the mobile app and ditched the desktop app altogether.

Asked for the same thing, but it's impossible or too hard to do it. - https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/discussions/1452 - https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2709

Thank your for your reply! > I'm a web dev, so I'm not comply to web spec but chasing it, as a web dev, I'm happy about this, so I take the web spec as granted. Okay, now I see: As a web dev you are able to make use of all these new features. I do not know about current conveniences. FWIW is that CSS should be portable across any browser/web view. And given that browsers nowadays occupy tons of memory (even though they are written in highly performant languages) I am still impressed by sciters small shipping size. > If I'm building a app biz company, I may choose sciter. sciter is not "free" to use, I remember sciter used to tring allowed the static linking if the donation is good enough, but seems not reach the goal, which means can not get a static exe like https://github.com/wailsapp/wails . Thank you for the recommendation!! It appea

First of all, I do like sciter, it's fresh air in wails,webview,electron & tauri. There are several cases why I prefer an electron: BrowserView, FileSystem api, newer css feature(Interop 2022 are greate), and all the newer js feature I use but I don't know it. I'm a web dev, so I'm not comply to web spec but chasing it, as a web dev, I'm happy about this, so I take the web spec as granted. If I'm building a app biz company, I may choose sciter. sciter is not "free" to use, I remember sciter used to tring allowed the static linking if the donation is good enough, but seems not reach the goal, which means can not get a static exe like https://github.com/wailsapp/wails . BTW, I'm sorry for the small app part, small should mean adapt or bend to sciter.

Here is another one https://github.com/wailsapp/wails powered by Golang, but both of tauri and wails do not support BrowserView like feature in Electron, which means you can not build a brave browser on top of them. Depends on your skill set, wails maybe better, think building a UI based tailscale app, just make the embed web part display directly instead behind a http.Server with extra 3-5 MB

Has anyone used Wails? Would this be a good choice? It looks great: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

For reference I'm taking my shot with https://github.com/wailsapp/wails (webview2 supported on Windows) and https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js for a PDF processing related use case. Wails because I imagine extensive Golang based services (preference/experience) in any cloud env. .NET would be my other approach for O365 based integrations. Rust has something similar to wails, https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri . Then there all the traditional native vs cross-platform methods. No approach, or cross platform framework, really seem quite right. But I figure time and money would be the important factors in any serious avenue I want to take things.