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Comment by drcongo | Hacker News Reader

I'm not entirely sure what this is, but those screenshots do the absolute opposite of selling it.

I had to find their Vision page to understand what they were promoting. The landing page quite possibly could be missing the opportunity to inform (and sell) people on their ideas.

To save other people the trouble:

The "fyne" framework is a Go UI toolkit, in a similar vein to Qt or GTK. It leverages Go's cross-compilation to compile for various architectures, and has built in utilities for publishing for the iOS/Android app stores.

This appears to be a desktop environment based on the UI toolkit.

*Disclaimer: Interpretation based on 5 minutes of skimming docs

Thank you, that actually sounds kinda interesting. Very much not sold on the look of it though.

Yeah, personally I think it looks terrible. Like just aesthetically it’s ugly. Purely personal taste though, and I beat no ill will toward the folks behind Fyne. I liked into using it to build a Go desktop app once upon a time, and was just so strongly turned off by Fyne’s look that I just lost all passion for building that project itself entirely. Never even got it off the ground.

Which is totally my fault, for sure, not theirs in the slightest. It’s just…that ugly.

Unnecessarily negative, do you also kick puppies on the way home?

I looked and it is decent, but needs polish. Which it will get unless broken people keep shitting on it.

Interesting, so this could be a cross platform desktop environment?

Yup :) For any platform that would allow 3rd party software to run the desktop we could do that. Sadly many block out non-OS software from doing so. But as cross-platform software it can be developed on different OSes as a single window app which makes it easier to code on the move.

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