https://mordaunt.dev/site/tags/native/Recent content in Native on Jack MordauntHugoenThu, 17 Jul 2025 11:21:04 -0300https://mordaunt.dev/site/projects/plato-desktop-client/Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:21:04 -0300https://mordaunt.dev/site/projects/plato-desktop-client/<style> .carousel { display: flex; overflow: scroll; } </style> <div class="carousel"> <img src="https://mordaunt.dev/site/images/Plato/PlatoHome.webp" alt="Home Page" /> <img src="https://mordaunt.dev/site/images/Plato/PlatoGame.webp" alt="Game Page" /> <img src="https://mordaunt.dev/site/images/Plato/PlatoMulti.webp" alt="Multi Window" /> </div> <h2 id="overview"> Overview <a class="heading-link" href="#overview"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>A cross-platform desktop game client built for <strong>Plato Team Inc.</strong>, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux. Though now discontinued, the project showcased a modern, multi-window architecture with a primary chat interface and independent game windows.</p> <p>The application was built in <strong>Go</strong>, using the <strong>Gio</strong> immediate-mode GUI toolkit. It interfaced extensively with C and C++ libraries, including <strong>ANGLE</strong> (OpenGL ES), <strong>V8</strong> (JavaScript engine), <strong>SQLite</strong>, and <strong>libwebp</strong> for image decoding.</p>https://mordaunt.dev/site/projects/sprig/Thu, 17 Mar 2022 17:30:23 +0000https://mordaunt.dev/site/projects/sprig/<style> .carousel { display: flex; overflow: scroll; } </style> <div class="carousel"> <img src="https://mordaunt.dev/site/images/sprig/sprig.webp" alt="Sprig" /> </div> <h2 id="overview"> Overview <a class="heading-link" href="#overview"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>Built by <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~whereswaldon" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">~whereswaldon</a>, <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~whereswaldon/sprig" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sprig</a> is a client for <a href="https://man.sr.ht/~whereswaldon/arborchat" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arbor</a>, an open source federated chat platform.<br> Sprig is a cross-platform client supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.<br> It&rsquo;s written in <strong>Go</strong>, using the <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Gio</strong></a> immediate-mode UI toolkit.</p> <hr> <h3 id="my-role"> My Role <a class="heading-link" href="#my-role"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h3> <p>When I joined, Sprig stored each chat message as an individual file on disk. This file-per-message model worked reasonably well on Linux, but resulted in <strong>severely degraded performance</strong> on Windows, where reading thousands of tiny files led to <strong>notably slow startup times</strong>.</p>