CliWidget vs xtd

CliWidget

C++ library for using widgets in your CLI applications for Linux and Windows. (by lazaro92)

xtd

Free open-source modern C++17 / C++20 framework to create console, GUI (forms like WinForms) and unit test applications on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and Linux. (by gammasoft71)

Source Code

gammasoft71.github.io

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CliWidget		xtd
	Project
1	Mentions	10
49	Stars	648
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.5
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
C++	Language	C++
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

CliWidget

Posts with mentions or reviews of CliWidget. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-13.

A Simple library for progress bars in C++
4 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Jan 2021

This could be a widget of my library CliWidget -> https://github.com/lazaro92/CliWidget

xtd

Posts with mentions or reviews of xtd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-13.

The xtd 0.2.0 (beta) is growing 😀
2 projects | /r/xtdpro | 13 Nov 2023

Github : https://github.com/gammasoft71/xtd

2 projects | /r/xtdpro | 13 Nov 2023

Website : https://gammasoft71.github.io/xtd/
What would you say is a good GUI library for a beginner (someone who's never dabbled in GUI programming before, but has several years of experience with C++)?
6 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 22 Oct 2021

xtd is a free open-source modern C++17 / C++20 framework to create console, forms (GUI like WinForms) and unit test applications on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and Linux.
xtd 0.1.0 (beta) is released!
2 projects | /r/cpp | 10 Oct 2021

Free and open-source (MIT License);

2 projects | /r/cpp | 10 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CliWidget and xtd you can also consider the following projects:

NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL

imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

Elements C++ GUI library - Elements C++ GUI library

wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

xmake - 🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

CEGUI

Stacer - Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring - https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web

nana - a modern C++ GUI library

sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

Slint - Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint]

ncurses - snapshots of ncurses - see http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html (no pull requests are accepted)

nitroshare-desktop - Network file transfer application for Windows, OS X, & Linux

xtd vs NanoGUI

xtd vs imgui

xtd vs Elements C++ GUI library