Show HN: Proton – A pure Go GUI library with zero CGO dependencies

By CzaxTanmay · 2026-07-10 · 2 points · 3 comments

I built Proton because I wanted to write native desktop utilities in Go without the massive memory overhead of webviews (like Wails) and without the absolute nightmare of cross-compiling graphics bindings with CGO enabled. It uses an immediate-mode API layout built on top of Gio…

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