libui-ng
libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation" (by libui-ng)
nappgui
Cross-Platform C SDK (precompiled) (by frang75)
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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 – 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)
nappgui
Posts with mentions or reviews of nappgui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-08.
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Ask HN: Best Language & Framework for GUI development
Qt meets all your requirements; everything (GUI code and business logic) can be implemented in moderate C++ (C++ 98 or higher, even "C with classes" style is ok). RAM usage is generally low (< 10 MB for most of my apps). If you prefer C over C++ https://nappgui.com is yet another good library.
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GUI for software, not games, but lighter than Qt ?
Have a look at https://nappgui.com. It is lean, cross-platform and has excellent documentation.
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I made a shortlist of good libraries for my GUI C project and I want your thoughts and comments.
Best option for lean multi-platform lib: https://nappgui.com
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Not-gtk GUI Libs/frameworks for plain C
have you tried this? https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial also https://github.com/frang75/nappgui is very interesting and promising.
- NAppGUI - Cross-Platform C SDK to build desktop applications
- Cross-platform desktop applications in C
What are some alternatives?
When comparing libui-ng and nappgui you can also consider the following projects:
raygui - A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library
nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
Gtk4-tutorial - GTK 4 tutorial for beginners
libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
nappgui_src - SDK for building cross-platform desktop apps in ANSI-C
med - Micro Emacs in D
SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer
panama-foreign - https://openjdk.org/projects/panama
Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger