cimgui VS dear_bindings

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

I would give ImGui a look, it is technically a c++ api, but there is a plain c version https://github.com/cimgui/cimgui/tree/docking_inter which is a free cross platform gui toolset

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

> create a proper C binding to the C++ interface

That's the generally recommended way of exposing your C++ library to any kind of non-C++ code.

I'm not aware of any software which directly helps with that, unfortunately. You either do it manually or write a bunch of custom scripts. Here's a recent example of the latter, from Dear ImGui:

https://github.com/dearimgui/dear_bindings