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Gallium vs MacGap: What are the differences?

What is Gallium? 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.

What is MacGap? Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications. MacGap provides HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing native OS X App. These Apps run in OS X's WebView and take advantage of WebKit technologies. MacGap exposes a JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file. MacGap is extremely lightweight and nimble; a blank application weighs less than 1MB.

Gallium and MacGap can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.

Gallium and MacGap are both open source tools. Gallium with 3.63K GitHub stars and 132 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than MacGap with 3.59K GitHub stars and 226 GitHub forks.

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What is Gallium?

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.

What is MacGap?

MacGap provides HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing native OS X App. These Apps run in OS X's WebView and take advantage of WebKit technologies. MacGap exposes a JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file. MacGap is extremely lightweight and nimble; a blank application weighs less than 1MB.

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Mercury

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Python

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