# sciter-sdk/go-sciter

Golang bindings of Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine for modern UI development

Repository: https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/go-sciter
Homepage: https://sciter.com
Language: C++
License Family: other
Topics: gui, sciter, tiscript, htmlayout, go-binding, golang-bindings
Last push: 2023-05-13T09:49:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3975, "days_push": 1208, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2621, forks 269 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:04.996964+00:00)

## What it is
Go bindings (via cgo) for Sciter, an embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine for building desktop UIs. It exposes most of the Sciter API, including DOM manipulation, event handling, and custom resource loading, in a Go-friendly way.

## Use cases
- build a desktop app with html/css ui in go
- create cross-platform gui applications using golang
- embed an html rendering engine in a go program
- manipulate dom and handle events from go code
- load custom resources into a sciter-based ui

## When to choose
- you want lightweight html/css-based desktop uis in go with a small runtime library
- you're already familiar with sciter and want go bindings

## When to avoid
- you need the sciter node api or tiscript engine api, which are unsupported
- you want a pure-go gui toolkit without cgo or external dynamic library dependencies
- you need actively maintained bindings with recent go ecosystem support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gui, sdk
- domain: desktop-applications, web-development, cross-platform
- platform: go, windows, cross-platform
- tags: sciter, cgo, html-css-ui, desktop-gui, bindings, linux, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- sciter-sdk/go-sciter (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:04.996964+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:20:06.930162+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:04.996964+00:00, sha 493990bb284f)
  - homepage: https://sciter.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:03:04.905922+00:00, sha 44136fa355b3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.