"all it takes to draw a widget on the screen" is not enough to create "an actual desktop toolkit". If you need to draw a widget on the screen, there's Dear ImG

"all it takes to draw a widget on the screen" is not enough to create "an actual desktop toolkit". If you need to draw a widget on the screen, there's Dear ImGui [1] that you can use from Go [2] If you're looking for a desktop toolkit, there's a reason why things like Qt are multidecade endeavours. [1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui [2] https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go https://github.com/inkyblackness/imgui-go