How To Make Fast & Responsive GUI’s With Golang

Manpreet Singh
2 min readFeb 26, 2024

Welcome back! Golang is one of the best programming languages out there, so, let’s build out a fast/responsive GUI with Golang! First of all, we’ll be using the Fyne framework, this is a cross-platform GUI toolkit! To install this framework, you can use the following command:

go get fyne.io/fyne/v2@latest

Once installed, you can actually run a showcase of the features of this toolkit by using the following command:

go install fyne.io/fyne/v2/cmd/fyne_demo@latest
fyne_demo

You should then be able to see the following output:

This will give you a breakdown of the capability behind this toolkit! Now, this particular toolkit has a bunch of features, so we won’t be able to go through each individual feature right now, but to get started we can import some of the main components of this toolkit by using the following commands:

package main

import (
"fyne.io/fyne/v2/app"
"fyne.io/fyne/v2/container"
"fyne.io/fyne/v2/widget"
)

Once we bring in the imports, we can create a basic window from this toolkit by using the following command (below the top…

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