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Dev tools · May 17, 2024

Spot. Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go

Hi HN, I’m excited to share Spot, a simple, cross-platform, React-like GUI library for Go. It is just a few days old and has lots of missing features but I'm happy with the results so far, and looking for some design feedback. What is Spot? Spot is designed to be easy to use and provide a consistent API across different platforms (mainly Mac & Linux). It’s inspired by React, but written in Go, aiming to combine the best of both worlds: the easy tooling & performance of Go with a modern, reactive approach to UI development. Key features: - Cross-platform: Leveraging FLTK[1] & Cocoa[2], Spot…

Spot. Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go launched on May 17, 2024 with 9 votes, #1,332 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

React-like desktop GUI toolkit for Go. Contribute to roblillack/spot development by creating an account on GitHub.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, I’m excited to share Spot, a simple, cross-platform, React-like GUI library for Go. It is just a few days old and has lots of missing features but I'm happy with the results so far, and looking for some design feedback. What is Spot? Spot is designed to be easy to use and provide a consistent API across…

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