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How Go Taught Me to Love Building Apps Again

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Discover how Go and the Fyne toolkit reignited a passion for app development in this 42-minute conference talk from Conf42 Golang 2024. Explore the frustrations of traditional GUI development and learn how Go offers a delightful alternative. Dive into the Fyne toolkit, an open-source native app framework, and witness its growing popularity. Follow along as the speaker demonstrates building a simple app and a markdown editor, covering testing, packaging, and distribution. Gain insights into Fyne's graphical capabilities, widgets, containers, dialogs, and file I/O. Learn about third-party components and see examples of Fyne-powered applications, including Fysion and FyshOS. Get inspired to create cross-platform applications with ease and rediscover the joy of building apps using Go and Fyne.

Syllabus

intro
preamble
about me
background: frustrations of gui development
go: a delightgul alternative
fyne: a new hope for app developers
an open source native app toolkit?
fyne toolkit stargazers
fyne runs on...
your first app in just minutes!
building our first - prerequisites
building our first app
markdown editor
testing and distribution
package
distribution
exploring further...
graphical capabilities
widgets
containers
dialogs
file and i/o
additional possibilities
3rd party components too!
so many possibilities
other fyne apps
and fysion!
and fyshos...
more about fyne
thank you

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