What is Gallium?
Gallium is a Go library for managing windows, menus, dock icons, and desktop notifications. Each window contains a webview component, in which you code your UI in HTML. Under the hood, the webview is running Chromium.
Gallium is a tool in the Cross-Platform Desktop Development category of a tech stack.
Gallium is an open source tool with 3.7K GitHub stars and 136 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Gallium's open source repository on GitHub
Gallium Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Gallium?
Iron
Iron is a high level web framework built in and for Rust, built on hyper. Iron is designed to take advantage of Rust's greatest features - its excellent type system and its principled approach to ownership in both single threaded and multi threaded contexts.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.
Mercury
A modular JSON-RPC library that allows pluggable transport layers, JSON libraries, and effect/async monads.
It is used to communicate with embedded devices where the device is acting in the server role.
Electron
With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker. The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.
JavaFX
It is a set of graphics and media packages that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client applications that operate consistently across diverse platforms.
