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Wails is great! I've been working with wails v2 on Windows, and it's been a great experience. Built and delivered a Windows desktop application in Go + AntD for a customer really quickly.

It's a little complex app dealing with Win32 API's directly from Go and the binary being just 10MB is amazing, which can be compressed further with UPX.

Though, UPX-compressed Go binaries has a very high rate of being flagged by antivirus software (especially MS Defender).



If you think a 10MB binary is amazing, try out FLTK, your cross platform GUI programs can start at 100KB.


Isn't the point of Wails (and Electron) to use "web" UI techniques vs. more traditional UI toolkits?


Isn't the point of software to deliver something people want to use?


I wouldn't have minded even if it was 20MB.

The goal was having the convenience of building UI in React and have the heavy lifting done by Go. Both, stacks I am very familiar with and work with daily.




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