Sirius VS imgui-java

Hi fellas, how are you? I have been working on a game engine and today I opened the repository! Gonna leave the link bellow so u can check it out, https://github.com/davidalmarinho/Sirius And ofc, contribution is more than welcome! Best regards, David

Hi guys, how are you? Well, some years ago I innocently made a post asking basically for a roadmap to learn to make a game engine and making a game with it.... https://www.reddit.com/r/learnjava/comments/dzlsdl/game_engine/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share As expected, now I almost have a game engine and ofc I don't have a game done with it hahah, indeed :) Developing the game engine was a long ride and it was a pretty cool project to learn a lot of new stuff. So far, this was the best project I have ever "made". Thank u for all your support! Gonna leave the link bellow with the src code of the game engine, https://github.com/davidalmarinho/Sirius Best regards, David

So this makes me wonder: how common is desktop app development with Java these days? I imagine there is still a lot done for internal app, but is it still viable to ship Java apps to end users? How you handle JRE distribution in that case?

Anyway also wanna shout out Dear ImGui[0]. I've been using it recently to build an interactive UI to quite complicated networking code. So far it been great for manual testing and demos, and it's fairly low maintenance once running.

[0] https://github.com/SpaiR/imgui-java

If you aren't off-put by the Blender/Unity UI style, there's also ImGUI a possibility as it has some java bindings available.

If you want a library that has an active community and a lot of examples try out imgui (java port: https://github.com/SpaiR/imgui-java). It is a C based language but seems like the port are pretty close to the original api so you can follow not only the java docs but the c/c++ ones as well. There are a few game engines that utilizes imgui in the editor because it is lightweight, easy to extend, theme and use.