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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

By : Andrew Williams
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Hands-On GUI Application Development in Go

By: Andrew Williams

Overview of this book

Go is often compared to C++ when it comes to low-level programming and implementations that require faster processing, such as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). In fact, many claim that Go is superior to C++ in terms of its concurrency and ease of use. Most graphical application toolkits, though, are still written using C or C++, and so they don't enjoy the benefits of using a modern programming language such as Go. This guide to programming GUIs with Go 1.11 explores the various toolkits available, including UI, Walk, Shiny, and Fyne. The book compares the vision behind each project to help you pick the right approach for your project. Each framework is described in detail, outlining how you can build performant applications that users will love. To aid you further in creating applications using these emerging technologies, you'll be able to easily refer to code samples and screenshots featured in the book. In addition to toolkit-specific discussions, you'll cover more complex topics, such as how to structure growing graphical applications, and how cross-platform applications can integrate with each desktop operating system to create a seamless user experience. By delving into techniques and best practices for organizing and scaling Go-based graphical applications, you'll also glimpse Go's impressive concurrency system. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover how to distribute to the main desktop marketplaces and distribution channels. By the end of this book, you'll be a confident GUI developer who can use the Go language to boost the performance of your applications.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Comparison of GUI Toolkits
Index

Appendix 5. Other Books You May Enjoy

If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in these other books by Packt:

Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go Corey Scott

ISBN: 9781789132762

  • Understand the benefits of DI
  • Explore SOLID design principles and how they relate to Go
  • Analyze various dependency injection patterns available in Go
  • Leverage DI to produce high-quality, loosely coupled Go code
  • Refactor existing Go code to adopt DI
  • Discover tools to improve your code’s testability and test coverage
  • Generate and interpret Go dependency graphs

Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang Jyotiswarup Raiturkar

ISBN: 9781788622592

  • Understand architectural paradigms and deep dive into Microservices
  • Design parallelism/concurrency patterns and learn object-oriented design patterns in Go
  • Explore API-driven systems architecture with introduction to REST and GraphQL standards
  • Build event-driven architectures and make your architectures anti-fragile
  • Engineer scalability and learn how to migrate to Go from other languages
  • Get to grips with deployment considerations with CICD pipeline, cloud deployments, and so on
  • Build an end-to-end e-commerce (travel) application backend in Go