membrane VS HumbleUI

User Interfaces are brittle, highly coupled, and inflexible. This talk will diagnose some of the root problems that plague user interfaces and show how a different approach can make UI programs dramatically simpler using Membrane (https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane).

Closest I can think of is the terminal backend for membrane

UI toolkits: https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI and https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane

It would be cool to see more libraries in this space. I've been working on a similar library, https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane. If you're not building on top of React, there's a huge untapped design space.

I built membrane for exactly this use case, https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane. The graphics and event model is pure clojure with support for multiple platforms. Membrane is less mature than some of the other JVM options, but Swing/AWT/JavaFX have their own quirks.

So you can see, there are really a lot of choices but none of them dominates, which means they all have flaws. You can read a good article from Niki Tonsky where Clojure UI problems are discussed. Also to address the problems Niki Tonsky started the development of a new UI for Clojure, called Humble UI. So now we have one more option :)

If you don't mind being stuck on Windows you could use Visual C# or Visual Basic, they have edit-and-continue too. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/edit... I've worked with the SuperTux C# level editor in the past. C# was actually pretty nice for GUI stuff.

There doesn't seem to be a good GUI framework for Clojure. There was Seesaw but it hasn't been updated since 2019. There is a guy developing a new framework https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI/ but it's WIP. I guess you could sidestep this by making it a webapp and using figwheel.

UI toolkits: https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI and https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane

Nikita Prokopov is developing Humble UI which is worth keeping a close eye on. (Yes, it's Clojure, but Java interop is bound to emerge if it builds up a critical mass and catches on.)

https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI/

I've made a few desktop apps in https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx (e.g., https://www.chronos-desk.com/), and cljfx (JavaFX + Clojure) is amazing and makes for rapid development, not to mention fun. I'm keeping an eye on https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI, which promises to be a step up.