quasar

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Quasar Comic Reader

Why?

• Because why not?
• Because I wanted to try a new language (Go)
• Because I wanted to make something bigger than a Hello World

Features

Not much yet. The project is extremely early in development.

Screenshots

Look above.

Roadmap

• v.next:

  • rename? (for the third time!). Considered names:
    1. Geon
    2. Gravastar
    3. Retrocausality
    4. Kugelblitz
    5. Lorentzian Manifold

• v0.5:

  • ability to provide revenue to the hosting sites through shown ads (opt-in by default)
  • complete Batoto plugin

• v0.8:

  • more plugins

• v1.0:

  • seamless integration with numerous comic-reading sites
  • scripted plugins for said sites

Quasar uses:

1. Core: Go with (quite a lot!) of C/C++ glue code
2. GUI: QtQuick of Qt 5 through Go-QML by Gustavo Niemeyer
3. Storage: SQLite 3 through go-sqlite3 by mattn
4. Crypto: libsodium through libsodium-go by GoKillers