Gova GUI framework
Shares rank 35 of 45 GUI frameworks by recommenders
A declarative Go GUI framework with hot-reload dev tooling, praised for its clean design and cross-platform goal. Early and young, with few commits so far.
A declarative Go GUI framework with hot-reload dev tooling, praised for its clean design and cross-platform goal. Early and young, with few commits so far.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
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“The code looks nice, but when I read GUI, I want to see screenshots of GUIs.”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go” “i really dont think a guy who really actually cared about delivering something like this would kneecap its own success with a lack of screenshots”
Comment from 25 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go” Very few commits so far
“Probably nice, but only 7 commits and over 2 days?”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go”
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| Qt | 191 | 133 | 59% | 12 | 15 yrs7 owners | — |
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| SwiftUI | 75 | 121 | 38% | 11 | 4 yrs8 owners | — |
| Gova GUI frameworkThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“i really dont think a guy who really actually cared about delivering something like this would kneecap its own success with a lack of screenshots”
“Not encouraging. You can't add 'viewNode' since it's not exported...”
“Probably nice, but only 7 commits and over 2 days?”
“The hot-reload dev cli looks very cool in a compiled-binary world.”
“Very excited every time I see cross-platform GUI in go.”
“That's a beautifully designed library, bravo!”
“The code looks nice, but when I read GUI, I want to see screenshots of GUIs.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.