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25 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 5 stories, 20 comments · first 2019-04-30 · latest 2025-12-14

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  1. …complexity of selfhosting in very specific edge use cases. Right now I am tinkering with wails ( https://github.com/wailsapp/wails ) to build an app store.
    comment by localhostinger · 2025-12-14 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
  2. go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest Why is that hidden behind a click and two walls of text?
    comment by singularity2001 · 2025-11-24 · in Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies
  3. …hub.com/tkrajina/typescriptify-golang-structs Which is used for example in the Go GUI framwork Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/tree/v2.11.0/v2/internal/b...
    comment by PhilippGille · 2025-11-18 · in Show HN: Guts – convert Golang types to TypeScript
  4. There's Wails for Go backend and webview frontend; https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by PhilippGille · 2025-11-12 · in .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
  5. …using Wails [1] and Fyne [2]. The former uses a web view for the UI, the latter is Go only. [1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails [2] https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne
    comment by PhilippGille · 2025-08-09 · in Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?
  6. …bundled web renderer instead: - For Rust apps: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri - For Go apps: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by PhilippGille · 2025-02-02 · in Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
  7. …supporting all platforms (Web, desktop, iOS, Android). [0] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri [1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by imadj · 2024-08-11 · in Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter
  8. …Electron but lighter because it doesn't ship Chrome but uses the system's web viewer instead. [1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by PhilippGille · 2024-05-18 · in Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
  9. …to make it a native desktop app, or get funky and give it native chrome/menus etc. [Wails]( https://github.com/wailsapp/wails ) is a good candidate to start if you want to cut on boiler plate.
    comment by sangupta · 2023-02-15 · in Ask HN: What is the most pleasant, uncomplicated full stack to start with?
  10. …rough round the edges. Because it's go, package sizes are 10mb+ but nothing like Electron 30mb+ 1. https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by campbellmorgan · 2022-08-29 · in Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and Windows
  11. There are some technologies like this. I'm going to look into Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by diamondap · 2022-08-15 · in Ask HN: Can small teams maintain Electron apps?
  12. …(https://gioui.org/) Looks okay. Customisable. Tailscale Mobile app is made with this. 3) Wails (https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) Easy WebView for Go. Lacks native functionalities. 4) Sciter (https://sciter.com) embedded in Go Haven't…
    comment by kretaceous · 2022-06-18 · in Fyne, a cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Go
  13. Asked for the same thing, but it's impossible or too hard to do it. - https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/discussions/1452 - https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2709
    comment by wener · 2022-06-16 · in Wails – Electron Alternative Powered by Go
  14. …donation is good enough, but seems not reach the goal, which means can not get a static exe like https://github.com/wailsapp/wails . Thank you for the recommendation!! It appears to me that his previous attempts to market his product have…
    comment by tommyage · 2022-06-16 · in Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
  15. …donation is good enough, but seems not reach the goal, which means can not get a static exe like https://github.com/wailsapp/wails . BTW, I'm sorry for the small app part, small should mean adapt or bend to sciter.
    comment by wener · 2022-06-16 · in Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
  16. Here is another one https://github.com/wailsapp/wails powered by Golang, but both of tauri and wails do not support BrowserView like feature in Electron, which means you can not build a brave browser on top of them. Depends on your skill…
    comment by wener · 2022-06-16 · in Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust
  17. Has anyone used Wails? Would this be a good choice? It looks great: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
    comment by cdelsolar · 2022-03-11 · in Lessons Learnt Moving a GTK Application from Go to Ada
  18. For reference I'm taking my shot with https://github.com/wailsapp/wails (webview2 supported on Windows) and https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js for a PDF processing related use case. Wails because I imagine extensive Golang based services…
    comment by ramoz · 2022-01-21 · in Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
  19. Personally I'm a big fan of https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/ It uses native webview so no electron. Let's you effortlessly bind JS functions to those in Go. V2 is in the works and will effectively bring the best features of electron…
    comment by Philip-J-Fry · 2020-08-11 · in Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel
  20. …a nice way to build desktop app for quite some time. Other projects that I am considering to use: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails (looks very decent and I would be happy to use Vue.js for a UI bit) and Flutter with desktop support (…
    comment by deforciant · 2019-10-08 · in Gio: Portable, Immediate Mode GUI in Go