Gallium vs wxWidgets

Overview

wxWidgets

Stacks21

Followers75

Votes19

GitHub Stars6.9K

Forks1.9K

Gallium

Stacks0

Followers10

Votes0

GitHub Stars3.7K

Forks134

Gallium vs wxWidgets: What are the differences?

Developers describe Gallium as "Build desktop applications in Go and HTML". 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. On the other hand, wxWidgets is detailed as "It is a cross platform GUI library". It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.

Gallium and wxWidgets can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.

Gallium is an open source tool with 3.65K GitHub stars and 134 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gallium's open source repository on GitHub.

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wxWidgets	Gallium
It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.	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.
Support for gesture events (GSoC 2017 project); Getting JavaScript code return value from wxWebView (also GSoC 2017 project); New wxSecretStore class for securely storing user passwords; New, available in parallel with the existing one, CMake build system; Support for context-sensitive translations.	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 6.9K	GitHub Stars 3.7K
GitHub Forks 1.9K	GitHub Forks 134
Stacks 21	Stacks 0
Followers 75	Followers 10
Votes 19	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Native looking UI 4 Learning Curve 3 Cross platform 2 Permissive license. Commercial with static linkage. 2 Open source Cons 1 Uses Qt for GUI (wxQt)	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Perl C++ Windows Linux Python macOS Ruby	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to wxWidgets, Gallium?

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.

Sciter

It brings a stack of web technologies to desktop UI development. Web designers, and developers, can reuse their experience and expertise in creating modern looking desktop applications.

Qt5

It is a full development framework with tools designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.

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.

React Native Desktop

Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

JUCE

It is a C++ framework for low-latency applications, with cross-platform GUI libraries to get your apps running on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

Proton Native

Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.

NodeGUI

It is an open source library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS like styling. It is based on Qt5 and NOT chromium, hence it is memory and cpu efficient.

pygame

It is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.

SDL

It is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.