iup VS cl-gtk4

Compare iup vs cl-gtk4 and see what are their differences.

iup

Common Lisp CFFI bindings to the IUP Portable User Interface library (pre-ALPHA) (by lispnik)

cl-gtk4

GTK4/Libadwaita/WebKit2 bindings for Common Lisp. (by bohonghuang)
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iup cl-gtk4
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131 207
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0.0 5.0
about 1 year ago 17 days ago
Common Lisp Common Lisp
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iup

Posts with mentions or reviews of iup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-21.
  • System browser for desktop UI
    1 project | /r/lisp | 30 Oct 2022
    you could try with IUP https://github.com/lispnik/iup Supposedly cross-platform. Uses Webkit.
  • Status update on my CL editor
    7 projects | /r/lisp | 21 Oct 2022
    Notably - 1. https://github.com/lispnik/iup/ 2. https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml 3. https://github.com/bohonghuang/cl-gtk4
  • Which tools to use to create a (very simple) GUI program?
    1 project | /r/lisp | 25 Oct 2021
    IUP https://github.com/lispnik/iup
  • What is the most pleasant way to write a portable GUI in CL?
    4 projects | /r/lisp | 12 Feb 2021
    I think the IUP bindings are really worth a try: https://github.com/lispnik/iup/ Overview of it (and others): https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/gui.html I quickly tried it and it worked as expected. The only difficulty is to learn the framework: how to assemble the GUI parts (where to put the scrollbar?) and this sort of things. Given the author it should be pretty much dynamic (as much as Ltk) but might not be there yet. It will, given more users and demand.

cl-gtk4

Posts with mentions or reviews of cl-gtk4. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-22.
  • Did anybody had recently any luck using SBCL with GTK4 using sb-alien?
    2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 22 Dec 2022
    Wow, you asked and you got a nice answer. Cool. https://github.com/bohonghuang/cl-gtk4/issues/4
  • Status update on my CL editor
    7 projects | /r/lisp | 21 Oct 2022
    Notably - 1. https://github.com/lispnik/iup/ 2. https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml 3. https://github.com/bohonghuang/cl-gtk4
  • GTK4 Bindings for Common Lisp
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 20 Sep 2022
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2022
    This is neat, but the ergonomics of using the GTK4 library (especially now) does not lend itself well to being 'lisp-ified'. Just take a look at the web browser code[0], which is surprisingly short but incredibly obtuse. It's already hard enough writing GTK interfaces in expressive languages like Rust and Go, seeing it for Lisp makes me wonder who the target audience is...

    That being said, we have been promised something of a redesign for GTK 4.4, I think. If they fix the weird builder/closure pattern for building UIs, I think they'll be back on track to being treated as a "real" GUI tooklit again.

    [0] https://github.com/bohonghuang/cl-gtk4/blob/master/examples/...

  • [cl-gtk4] Writing beautiful GUI with Common Lisp and GTK4
    3 projects | /r/lisp | 16 Sep 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing iup and cl-gtk4 you can also consider the following projects:

cljfx - Declarative, functional and extensible wrapper of JavaFX inspired by better parts of react and re-frame

parrot - A cross-platform Common Lisp editor

ftw - Common Lisp Win32 GUI library

swank-client - A Swank client implemented in JavaScript

nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

cl-gobject-introspection-wrapper - Wrap and call GObject Introspection FFI function in LISP style.

vk - Common Lisp/CFFI bindings for the Vulkan API.

clog - CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

cl-gobject-introspection

lqml

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