SharpGLTF VS Silk.NET

Use glTF and https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf Or, looks like you are using C#, so https://github.com/vpenades/SharpGLTF

(can also do F# and Elmish F# with FuncUI!)

Gir.Core (GTK4 and co.): https://gircore.github.io/docs/use.html

ImGui with Silk.NET: https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET/blob/main/examples/CSharp...

There are: https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET, https://github.com/terrafx and https://github.com/microsoft/Win2D

Now, I don't know (or care, to be fair) about the internal aspect of the culture on what is in vogue in various MSFT teams, but there is a rich ecosystem of libraries to massively simplify interaction with pretty much anything that can be called from C and often C++ on Windows.

Genuine curiosity - what would be your motivation to use Java over C# here aside from familiarity (which is perfectly understandable)? The latter takes heavy focus on making sure to provide features like structs and pointers with little to no friction, you can even AOT compile it and statically link SDL2 into a single executable.

But either way, if you want to try it out, then all it needs is

- SDK from https://dot.net/download (or package manager of your choice if you are on Linux e.g. `sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-8.0`, !do not! use Homebrew if you are on macOS however, use .pkg installer)

- C# extension for VS Code (DevKit is not needed)

- SDL2 bindings: https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET

A couple other options than what has been suggested so far: - TerraFX.Interop.Windows. Raw, blittable, 1:1 bindings for all Win32, D2D/D3D11/D3D12 APIs (there's also a version with Vulkan bindings). As close to doing #include as you can get in C#. This is my personal favorite, I use it in my own ComputeSharp library, and transitively we use it in the Microsoft Store too 🙂 - Silk.NET another version of high-performance bindings, more opinionated than TerraFX and with some additional helpers to make it a bit easier to use.

Here is an example of using "releases" in GitHub: https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET/releases. Most repositories use releases and releases seem like they wpuld be appropriate for your repository too.

I've been looking at this. Is this similar to the UrhoSharp project you talk about? https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET

Have you looked at Silk.NET before?

Take a look at https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET . You should be able to use your existing rendering context with it. So you could use something like imgui (They have bindings for that) to render your UI. Or if you just start writing your rendering code, you could consider writing the whole rendering engine with it. I used it in the past for a game engine and performance is no problem for most of the usecases.