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Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go + HTML5

19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 6 stories, 13 comments · first 2018-11-15 · latest 2026-07-18

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  1. …A wails that assumes you have chrome installed (as most do) so: much smaller binaries. [0]: https://github.com/zserge/lorca [1]: https://wails.io/
    comment by gnabgib · 2026-07-18 · in How I use HTMX with Go
  2. …webview and react - https://github.com/snehesht/goview 1. https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri 2. https://github.com/zserge/lorca 3. https://github.com/webview/webview
    comment by snehesht · 2022-08-09 · in Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?
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    Lorca – Build modern HTML5 desktop apps in Go with Chrome as the UI layer
    story by fimdomeio · 2020-10-14 · 0 comments
  4. …Glad to see Lorca [2] as a spiritual successor. [1] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo/ [2] https://github.com/zserge/lorca
    comment by ptrik · 2020-08-11 · in Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel
  5. …left the company. I also see this project but you have to write Go to talk to the OS, not Node: https://github.com/zserge/lorca
    comment by exclipy · 2020-06-13 · in Flow browser passes the Acid tests
  6. …lorca[2], but also made a toy chess engine[3] today. [1]: https://github.com/zserge/webview [2]: https://github.com/zserge/lorca [3]: https://github.com/zserge/carnatus
    comment by zserge · 2020-03-21 · in Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
  7. …l.github.com/deployments/desktop/desktop/lates... [3]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo [4]: https://github.com/zserge/lorca
    comment by throwGuardian · 2019-12-12 · in Flutter: UI platform designed for ambient computing
  8. Alternatives: 1. Webview: https://github.com/zserge/webview 2. Lorca (Chrome): https://github.com/zserge/lorca 3. Carlo (js/Chrome): https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
    comment by throwGuardian · 2019-11-18 · in WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core
  9. …too huge) and has a C-FFI easily consumable from Rust. I have used this approach with success. 0 - https://github.com/zserge/lorca 1 - https://github.com/zserge/webview 2 - https://github.com/zserge/webview/tree/webview-x
    comment by kodablah · 2019-08-23 · in Rust GUI ecosystem overview
  10. …performant" GUI marketing that flutter claims [1]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo [2]: https://github.com/zserge/lorca
    comment by writepub · 2019-08-16 · in Memory Footprint of GUI Toolkits
  11. …want lorca[1] or fyne? I know that they are different, but which one would you go with and why? [1] https://github.com/zserge/lorca
    comment by johnisgood · 2019-03-25 · in Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design
  12. Regarding Go / Browser interaction sI've stumbled on two libs : https://github.com/zserge/lorca to integrate chrome as a UI (smaller than electron apparently) and https://github.com/zserge/webview (not tested myself and the second one is…
    comment by makapuf · 2019-03-04 · in A Book about Qt5
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    Build Modern HTML5 Desktop Apps in Go
    story by andrem · 2019-02-22 · 0 comments
  14. …It uses Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and MSHTML (IE10/11) on Windows. [0] https://github.com/zserge/lorca [1] https://github.com/zserge/webview edit: the link to the video https://video.fosdem.org/2019/UD2.120/godesktopapps.w…
    comment by IronBacon · 2019-02-13 · in Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview
  15. …instance to stdout, the program parses stdout to find the port and opens websocket connection. See: https://github.com/zserge/lorca/blob/master/chrome.go#L50 How would that be intercepted? Only the program that launches that chrome…
    comment by kjksf · 2019-02-13 · in Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go
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    Lorca: Go and Installed Chrome for Desktop Applications (Electron Alternative)
    story by arendtio · 2018-11-23 · 0 comments
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    Zserge/lorca: Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go and HTML5
    story by axiomdata316 · 2018-11-17 · 0 comments
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    Zserge/lorca: Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go and HTML5
    story by kiyanwang · 2018-11-16 · 1 comment
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    Show HN: Lorca – a tiny library for building cross-platform HTML5 GUI apps in Go
    story by zserge · 2018-11-15 · 3 comments