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Wails is great! I've been working with wails v2 on Windows, and it's been a great experience. Built and delivered a Windows desktop application in Go + AntD for a customer really quickly.

It's a little complex app dealing with Win32 API's directly from Go and the binary being just 10MB is amazing, which can be compressed further with UPX.

Though, UPX-compressed Go binaries has a very high rate of being flagged by antivirus software (especially MS Defender).

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CyberDildonics|3 years ago

If you think a 10MB binary is amazing, try out FLTK, your cross platform GUI programs can start at 100KB.

bdcravens|3 years ago

Isn't the point of Wails (and Electron) to use "web" UI techniques vs. more traditional UI toolkits?

arush15june|3 years ago

I wouldn't have minded even if it was 20MB.

The goal was having the convenience of building UI in React and have the heavy lifting done by Go. Both, stacks I am very familiar with and work with daily.