nuklear VS cimgui

Nuklear is an alternative Immediate GUI, also written in C.

> And for the right project, especially those where a predefined engine structure does not not fit, it can still be the most productive choice.

Right on. While interning at an oil refinery, I developed an application in LÖVE that processes and displays data from spectrometers. In hindsight it may not have been the wisest choice, but hand rolling all the GUI elements I couldnt force out of the Nuklear[0] bindings for LÖVE gave me a strange sense of satisfaction.

[0]: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

No, Nuklear has been updated 2 days ago.

I think good option would be nuklear it is a single header lib

For GUI, there are lots, most well-known of course being Dear Imgui, for which people have made auto-generated C bindings. Another mature but a lot simpler option is Nuklear, as others have mentioned. Even more minimalistic (it's just 1KLOC) is microui. There are a lot more, just google "imgui library c".

There's Nuklear.

What about https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear ?

Nuklear? They have a number of backends.

I would recommend C bindings for the Dear ImGui (https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui)

For GUI, there are lots, most well-known of course being Dear Imgui, for which people have made auto-generated C bindings. Another mature but a lot simpler option is Nuklear, as others have mentioned. Even more minimalistic (it's just 1KLOC) is microui. There are a lot more, just google "imgui library c".

DearIMGUI has both an unofficial C wrapper and a new official C binding generator. I have personally used the CIMGUI wrapper with C99 apps using the Direct3D11 backend and it works great. The new API is started by the DearIMGUI creator but is still adding features that are available in CIMGUI.

Unofficial C API - https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui

Whilst this is great. I have a (slightly dumb) question -What advantage does using these bindings give us over just using the generated C IMGUI bindings (cimgui) directly in Zig??Especially given the fact that that the latter are autogenerated from the original C++ IMGUI.

cimgui

This is worth a look: https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui

Dear ImGui is a C++ library, however a C port exists.

Explore GUI frameworks for C Here's another and another

Dear Imgui (the first IMGUI library) is written in C++ but there're C wrappers for it like C ImGui.

Oh, you can use cimgui for that. It's not that hard to set it up for zig with SDL/OpenGL. Basically you have to port the SDL2/OpenGL sample from C++ to zig, and then replace the imgui-calls with the cimgui-wrapper-functions.