Go Mobile UI Bindings

<p>I&#39;ve been using React Native for a small mobile project and it got me thinking about possibly piggy backing off it to produce a native user interface in Go. </p> <p>The way React Native works is that they execute JavaScript in a background thread which runs your application logic, and the framework produces native user interface via bindings from JavaScript to native code. </p> <p>I&#39;ve been wondering if we could replace the JavaScript layer with Go, making it possible to build all your application logic and user interface logic in Go. </p> <p>Before I started hacking too much I thought I&#39;d elicit opinions from the community.</p> <p>Thanks. PM me if you might be interested in doing the project with me.</p> <hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>caseynashvegas: <pre><p>I don&#39;t really think GopherJS is what I am going for, more of a pure Go implementation, getting the Go syntax vs. JavaScript isn&#39;t the goal, the goal is replace the layer with go. </p></pre>dasacc22: <pre><p>this has been on my mind for a while, not really specific to Go, just in general. The react native demo was impressive whether you like javascript or not so it&#39;s certainly gotten some people thinking, for example <a href="https://github.com/pfn/protify" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pfn/protify</a></p></pre>caseynashvegas: <pre><p>I&#39;ve been using it and have been extremely impressed. React is a game changer for the user interface in many ways. Emitting declarive, immutable state for the user interface instead of dealing with it though an imperative API is the true genius of the platform.</p></pre>santagada: <pre><p>The problem is that I don&#39;t think there is c api to call go code from c right? And also no shared library or dynamic loading in arm either so it seems to be a lot of work.</p></pre>caseynashvegas: <pre><p>My thought is that we could use gobind to expose a simple interface between the native Obj-C or Java application code and the app library written in Go. <a href="https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gobind">https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gobind</a></p> <p>The reason I was thinking about piggy backing off the work that they&#39;ve done in React Native is that they&#39;ve essentially created a protocol for building native user interfaces from javascript by marshaling JSON messages to and from their JavaScript runtime. Since the gobind tool can pass those back and forth it shouldn&#39;t be a problem to do the same. </p></pre>santagada: <pre><p>Cool!</p></pre>ngrilly: <pre><p>Maybe with by compiling Go to JS with GopherJS: <a href="https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs</a></p></pre>ngrilly: <pre><p>Another interesting link about using GopherJS with React: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286750" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286750</a></p></pre>