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Comment on Show HN: Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go

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Was looking for something like this some years back. Though I wanted Windows support too. Ended up switching to C++ to use wxWidgets, giving me small self contained binaries.

go-fltk does build and run on Windows, pretty well actually.

For a native toolkit, I was impressed to see FLTK supports Ctrl-+ and Ctrl+- to zoom the entire application like a browser. And https://github.com/fltk-rs/fltk-theme?tab=readme-ov-file#wid... really improved my impression of how "native" FLTK can be made to look.

On a related note, I discovered GoVCL https://z-kit.cc/en/ recently and am interested to try it out.

Big fan of WxWindows, I'm just too invested into Go these days. :)

Self-contained Spot "Hello World" is 2.3MiB on my Mac. Not pretty, but works for me.

So you didn't like to continue on that? https://github.com/dontpanic92/wxGo

Geez, look at the build instructions! It all went downhill when they switched from Motif to GTK.

There is wxGo, but sadly the project is not maintained.

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