Summary

In this chapter, we explored the history of graphical applications and the toolkits that power them. We saw that over the last half-century, many things have changed, and yet a lot of aspects have stayed the same. Through an illustration of trends in graphical design and technical capability, it became clear that these technologies, while adapting and improving in the eyes of the end user, can be slow to embrace the speed of improvement that developers expect. We saw that there are many different approaches to supporting the creation of GUIs that work across multiple platforms, but also that they can have drawbacks as well.

In the next chapter, we will learn more about the Fyne toolkit's vision and design, and why the project team believes this provides the easiest way to build robust and performant graphical apps for any platform.