We Built a Pure Go System Tray Library Because Every Alternative Requires CGO, GoGPU May 2026

"Love the no CGO — but quickly realized there's no code?" — @cmilesio, gogpu/systray#1 Fair point. We published the repo with just a README and a dream. Three days later: 5,800+ lines of Pure Go , three platforms, 74 tests, 84% coverage, and a working system tray icon on Windows. Today we're releasing gogpu/systray v0.1.0 — the first Pure Go system tray library that works on Windows, macOS, and Linux without a C compiler. The Problem Every Go system tray library requires CGO: Library Stars CGO?