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A reasonable write-up. I would really like them to elaborate on what GUI libraries besides Fyne they used and what issues they've encountered. Gio[1] has been fairly popular, and Tailscale's Android client is written in it, iirc.

[1]: https://gioui.org/

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The demo on the Gio page is badly broken for me (Chrome 99 on Windows 10) - it’s mostly black, with what appears to be a text area in the middle with black text on black background. Triple clicking text doesn’t work. There’s no right click menu (as in native text areas) to show copy/paste/select all. There’s no visible scrollbar so it wasn’t obvious I could scroll down to see more UI controls.

Overall it’s a terrible advertisement for the UI toolkit and seems typical of most immediate mode GUIs.

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