libui-ng
libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation" (by libui-ng)
Tokamak
SwiftUI-compatible framework for building browser apps with WebAssembly and native apps for other platforms (by TokamakUI)
| libui-ng | Tokamak | |
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| 15 | 22 | |
| 561 | 2,451 | |
| 5.2% | 1.4% | |
| 6.8 | 0.0 | |
| 6 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | Swift | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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libui-ng
Posts with mentions or reviews of libui-ng.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
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Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
I remember a few years ago, a few really cool cross-platform UI libraries were starting to emerge such as libui [0] that got me excited. I've kind of lost track of them since then (libui itself went dormant for a while before this fork) so I am not sure how mature/useful they are now, but the potential for writing native desktop UIs in basically any language seemed like an absolute dream. Perhaps it's feasible for very basic things?
[0] https://github.com/libui-ng/libui-ng
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Ask HN: Fastest cross-platform GUI stack/strategy
Linux/Windows/MacOS: https://github.com/libui-ng/libui-ng
- libui-ng ā a portable GUI library for C
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Zig instead of Rust.. and can it do these things?
There are a few libraries for GUI (for example, capy), and you can easily use any C libraries out there with @cImport (like libui), but it is still a work in progress.
- Libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C (fork of libui)
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Is it possible to build a gui which is both cross compatible and native?
It exists, at least for simple use cases. You are looking for libui-ng. wxWidgets of course also exists, but it is less a basic native wrapper than it is a complete toolkit emulating what doesn't exist where as libui seems to be more lowest common denominator (not sure but I think there might be a small amount of emulation, but not like wx I don't think).
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A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor written in C, and Lua
There's now libui-ng [1] which seems to be active and already has many wrappers
[1] https://libui-ng.github.io/libui-ng/
- Java 20 - Sneak Peek on the Foreign Function & Memory API (2nd preview)
- _why's Estate
- Libui-ng: Active fork of libui, a native cross-platfrom GUI SDK (+documentation)
Tokamak
Posts with mentions or reviews of Tokamak.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
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Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
https://github.com/TokamakUI/Tokamak
Iām also working (slowly) on native Flutter channels:
https://github.com/PADL/FlutterSwift
But this is really targeted at embedded use cases.
- Show HN: Tokamak ā A Dependency Injection-Centric Server-Side Framework for Zig
- Tokamak: SwiftUI-compatible framework for building browser apps with WebAssembly
- Mousetrap.jl: a GUI library for Julia and C++ that fully wrap GTK4
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Swift UIKit web frontend?
There is Tokamak but I don't know how usable it is just yet.
- Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't
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I would like to get a job as a iOS developer. Should I begin by learning UIKit or SwiftUI first?
TokamakUI runs via SwiftUI on WASM for web. Apple just hired the creator of the framework.
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Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US; dominates global premium sales
You can even make web apps by creating web components in swift with Tokamak.
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JavaScriptKit help
I am playing around with Tokamak just for a bit of fun and learning, and it's been pretty solid so far! Though I want to branch out and play with some dynamic data from a random API, instead of just using mocked/pre-populated data.
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Beginner - is it complicated to make a web app from an app written with SwiftUI for iOS?
There is SwiftWasm that compiles swift into WebAssembly so you can run it in the browser, but swift can't directly manipulate the DOM so you'd still need JavaScript or something like TokamakUI so you can design the front-end portion of your app.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing libui-ng and Tokamak you can also consider the following projects:
raygui - A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library
SwiftWebUI - SwiftUI with support for WebAssembly
nappgui - Cross-Platform C SDK (precompiled)
Vapor - š§ A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
Gtk4-tutorial - GTK 4 tutorial for beginners
Mongrel - Build declarative HTML in Swift.
libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
The-SwiftUI-Tutorials - Swift, GO (Golang) , SwiftUI, UIKit Tutorials.š²š»š„
nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
tornadofx - Lightweight JavaFX Framework for Kotlin
med - Micro Emacs in D
jupyterlite - Wasm powered Jupyter running in the browser š”