# ImVexed/muon

GPU based Electron on a diet

Repository: https://github.com/ImVexed/muon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/muon
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: electron, desktop, cross-platform, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2023-03-15T06:02:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2533, "days_push": 1267, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2942, forks 67 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:31.090307+00:00)

## What it is
Muon is a lightweight Go-based alternative to Electron that uses the Ultralight GPU-rendered WebKit engine instead of Chromium. It lets developers build small, low-memory desktop apps with HTML UIs and full JavaScript-to-Go interop in roughly 300 lines of code.

## Use cases
- build a lightweight desktop app with an HTML UI in Go
- replace Electron to reduce memory and disk footprint
- expose Go functions to JavaScript in a desktop app
- create cross-platform desktop applications with GPU-rendered webviews
- package a React or web frontend into a native desktop app
- embed a fast low-memory HTML renderer in a native application

## When to choose
- you want Electron-like HTML desktop UIs with far lower CPU, memory, and disk usage
- your app is written in Go and needs JS-to-Go interop
- you don't need full Chromium feature parity
- you want GPU-accelerated rendering for embedded-style desktop UIs

## When to avoid
- you need full Chrome/Firefox feature parity or Chromium-specific APIs
- you need a mature, actively maintained framework with a large ecosystem
- your team doesn't use Go and can't leverage the JS interop
- you rely on Ultralight features that are still missing or pre-release

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: desktop-framework, gui, web-framework
- domain: desktop-applications, web-development, cross-platform, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, go, windows
- tags: electron-alternative, ultralight, gpu-rendering, html-ui, js-go-interop, lightweight, desktop, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- ImVexed/muon (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:31.090307+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 2026-08-30T07:32:55.676037+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ImVexed/muon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:31.090307+00:00, sha fb84956cb60b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.