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MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go

11 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2024-09-29 · latest 2026-06-13

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  1. …good Qt bindings. None of the existing projects will ever reach Qt. Rust. Cargo. Qt. Go did it with https://github.com/mappu/miqt . Zig did it with https://github.com/rcalixte/libqt6zig . When will Rust do it? The time is now.
    comment by RustSupremacist · 2026-06-13 · in The state of building user interfaces in Rust
  2. There are bindings for Go ( https://github.com/mappu/miqt ) and Zig ( https://github.com/rcalixte/libqt6zig ) but not for Rust. We need bindings like these for Rust.
    comment by RustSupremacist · 2026-05-17 · in Native all the way, until you need text
  3. Somewhat related (but not declarative): Qt bindings for Go, MIT-licensed. https://github.com/mappu/miqt With the compiler flags I tried, binary size was close to that of Gova: https://github.com/mappu/miqt/issues/147#issuecomment-280033...…
    comment by foresto · 2026-04-24 · in Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go
  4. You might find this appealing: https://github.com/mappu/miqt
    comment by foresto · 2025-11-24 · in Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies
  5. …of networking and concurrency. With Zig, I was stuck. There are new Qt bindings for these. Go has https://github.com/mappu/miqt and Zig has https://github.com/rcalixte/libqt6zig . I wonder if the author knew about them. I don't know enough…
    comment by RustSupremacist · 2025-10-27 · in How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
  6. …that I sometimes need, but there are a few that expose Qt Widgets. For example, these Go bindings: https://github.com/mappu/miqt I hope we'll eventually see a cross-platform GUI toolkit rivaling Qt in a language more pleasant than C++ (and…
    comment by foresto · 2025-08-09 · in Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?
  7. …I'm actually kind of baffled that it's so popular. Last week I came across these Qt bindings: https://github.com/mappu/miqt I have no personal experience with it yet, but am excited to try it out.
    comment by CactusRocket · 2025-06-14 · in Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch
  8. …> I stick with Qt These come up on search results if you combine Qt plus the language. Go: * https://github.com/mappu/miqt Java: * https://github.com/OmixVisualization/qtjambi Nim: * https://github.com/jerous86/nimqt *…
    comment by rc00 · 2025-05-11 · in Lazarus Release 4.0
  9. …People still sometimes struggle to get this to work well. Recent example: (Go Qt bindings) https://github.com/mappu/miqt/issues/147
    comment by foresto · 2025-05-10 · in Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
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    Miqt: MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go
    story by todsacerdoti · 2024-10-09 · 86 comments
  11. I've been doing a new Qt Widgets binding for Go - https://github.com/mappu/miqt
    comment by mappu · 2024-09-29 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?