ID: mmhd8m
Date: 2022-03-27T11:31:56Z
Title: Golang and desktop wrappers to web apps
Authors: Izuru Yakumo <yakumo.izuru@chaotic.ninja>
Topics: Computing > Programming > Golang

I've been experimenting with the webview1 library in Golang to test a
couple things yesterday, and because I had nothing good else to do, or
something. The whole thing at least on *nix systems is that it seems to
use webkit2gtk, while on macOS it's safari's webkit, and that it's
mostly written in C/C++ with bindings for other languages, instead of
only JavaScript like Electron.js does, sort of. So far here's what I did
yesterday.

## Cinny (yet another web client for Matrix)
Did not crash or get disconnected as far I kept it running for a couple
hours.

Code: https://git.envs.net/novaburst/cinny-desktop-webkit

## SchildiChat (element-based client)
This is a rather heavy thing, which of course it works perfectly on say,
G**gle Chrom|e|ium obviously, and I even expected it to crash the
webview, but to my surprise, it only ran a little slow, but otherwise
worked fine.

## Telegram Web X
I get instantly disconnected from it, and runs slow-ish as well, because
it's too fancy (i'd say extremely) and I don't really like fancy stuff
if it is hardly useful.

1: <https://github.com/webview/webview>