On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:08 PM Jason E. Aten <j.e.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Somehow I missed Gio ( https://gioui.org/ ) on its first announcement earlier > this year. > > Gio -- as a pure Go GUI framework -- really ought to be better known. > > Hence I offer here a short review, and a getting started example project. > > > A) The micro review: > > I am impressed. Gio provides an immediate mode (read sane, no callback soup) > graphics framework. Animation and rendering were smooth. > > Supporting mobile, wasm, macOS desktop, iOS, android, windows desktop, and > wayland linux -- with x11 linux in the works, I'm told, is a bold and > stunning prospect. > > I've verified myself that macOS and Windows work well. The same smooth > experience across platforms that we've come to expect from Go command line > tools. But now in GUI form. A game engine based on Gio cannot be far behind > (anyone want a fun project?!) > > One caveat on Windows -- you may need to ship along the ANGLE DLLs from > Chrome that are included in hello_gio below. Eventually, the author of Gio, > Elias Naur, posted that he plans to also have Vulkan underneath, which might > prove more native to Windows. But relying on the same battle hardened OpenGL > translation layer DLLs that Chrome and Firefox utilize on Windows is a minor > packaging addendum at worst. > > While still young and evolving quickly, I appreciate the ambition of Gio. > What if Go were the preferred language for writing (portable) Apps and Games > of all kinds? > > > B) The example, starter code: > > I think it is worth posting my hello world experience with Gio. Both as a > demonstration of its prowess, and a guide to help > others getting started. Should you be so inclined, hello_gio will get you > drawing graphics in no time. > > https://github.com/glycerine/hello_gio > > Any questions, raise an issue on the github issues tracker, or see the Gio > mailing list https://lists.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio
FYI, Elias gave a talk about this project at Gophercon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D6eWP4peYM . Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcV9bGNpz4L6b%2B%2Beo5m5ojZSYP-Fi5bv89XDmzRtAbWXcQ%40mail.gmail.com.
