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Life & fun · October 20, 2017

Tiny cross-platform web UI library for C and Go

Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows). - webview/webview

Tiny cross-platform web UI library for C and Go launched on October 20, 2017 with 11 votes, #996 of 3,169 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

In plain words

This cross-platform web UI library enables developers to build user interfaces in C and Go by rendering them in a web browser. The library is designed to be lightweight and portable across different operating systems. It allows programmers to create graphical applications using web technologies while writing backend code in either C or Go, making it suitable for developers who want to combine systems programming languages with modern web-based UI frameworks.

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