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Less horrible than other solution OP mentioned. Go ecosystem is great for CLIs, Web services but Desktop app support is not so great

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What, on a fundamental level, makes Go worse than Javascript at desktop apps?

Investment.

GitHub then Microsoft invested heavily into Electron. Tons followed. Not to mention the existing web ecosystem.

There are like two dozen random open source developers who bothered to work on Go GUI libraries, on the side.

There's nothing fundamental about Go that makes it unsuitable for GUIs.

It is objectively better than Javascript in many respects, not least of which is performance.

There are only two major blocking issues I see, and none of them is unsurmountable:

- Complex text layout (harfbuzz)

- Accessibility

GitHub says Fyne has 120 contributors… and Fyne Labs is working to get substantial investment to secure the future like Google has done for Flutter or Facebook for react native.

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