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Interesting. I’m a little surprised they went with Electron instead of a Go portable GUI toolkit like Fyne or something. Electron is a safe choice, but it seems odd to take such a big dependency when you’re doing stuff like reimplementing Git

https://github.com/quiqr/embgit

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We forked Quiqr from Hokus CMS which is build with Electron. After we reach 1.0, we might do a plan a rewrite to another cross platform framework. A Go framework would be a logical choice.

https://www.hokuscms.com

Why? I only see a tiny note on this in the About page. What motivated the fork and how different are the two from each other?

The fork took place years ago. HokusCMS is not actively maintained.

Quiqr since added:

- embedded git client for cloning and publishing

- many more CMS field types

- importing Hugo themes

- importing Quiqr site templates

- and much more...

https://github.com/quiqr/quiqr-desktop/blob/main/CHANGELOG.m...

As a guess, the last commit to hokus is 3 years ago.

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