microui
A tiny immediate-mode UI library (by rxi)
raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming (by raysan5)
Our great sponsors
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
microui
Posts with mentions or reviews of microui.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.
-
Immediate Mode GUI Programming
There is also microui, which I like[0].
Which I forked to work with SDL2[1], no guarantees. It's fun to hack on.
[0]https://github.com/rxi/microui
[1]https://github.com/kennethrapp/microui
- MicroUI: Tiny immediate-mode UI library
-
What should I use to make GUI with SDL
Otherwise, https://github.com/rxi/microui is small enough that you can hack around. Look at the issue though, there's a bit of unaligned access there.
-
ImGui or text rendering libraries
For GUI, there are lots, most well-known of course being Dear Imgui, for which people have made auto-generated C bindings. Another mature but a lot simpler option is Nuklear, as others have mentioned. Even more minimalistic (it's just 1KLOC) is microui. There are a lot more, just google "imgui library c".
- A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, text editor written in C, and Lua
-
Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
The price for the 'lightest' UI toolkit probably goes to microui:
https://github.com/rxi/microui
Just around 1100 lines of C code.
You need to bring your own renderer, but that's the same for Nuklear or Dear ImGui.
I wrote a WASM wrapper for the microui demo too:
https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/sgl-microui-sapp.html
-
I made a shortlist of good libraries for my GUI C project and I want your thoughts and comments.
Good C library list: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/links/libs https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear + C89, no dependencies, public license. 5/5 https://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ + good tutorial and wiki guides 5/5 https://libsdl.org/ + infinite possibilities - whole library for making games, forums, wiki - complicated, not many C tutorials, need to manage game states... 4/5 https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl + good docs - for embedded systems 4/5 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui + Popular, inspired Nuklear - for C++ 3/5 https://docs.enlightenment.org/api/imlib2/html/ + very efficient, used in Conky - uses X so only for Linux, just for displaying images and text and stuff 2/5 https://github.com/rxi/microui + simple, small - you need to handle your own drawing 2/5 GTK+ - no
-
I haven't been using Linux that much yet, but because of my experience with Xfce, and because others don't seem to enjoy desktop environments on Linux too much, I want to create my own.
Really? Here's a minimal UI with I believe less LOC than Suckless DWM. It's not a full DE, but I imagine you could probably turn it into one without adding that much more code.
- Best way to write a cross-platform graphical program in C while using only bare minimum third-party libraries?
- resources for making a gui library
raylib
Posts with mentions or reviews of raylib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
-
Zig! Can you C?
Fetch Packages... raylib... ./ray_test_zig/build.zig.zon:7:20: error: url field is missing corresponding hash field .url = "https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/archive/refs/tags/5.0.tar.gz", ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ note: expected .hash = "1220c28847ca8e8756734ae84355802b764c9d9cf4de057dbc6fc2b15c56e726f27b",
- Ask HN: Do you know any open source (2D or 3D) asset libraries?
- Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
-
Can't make my mind about which engine to use
libGDX is great, but I can understand if it's not for some people. This also applies to love2d, raylib and Monogame
-
Raylib Library For Video Games Programming as Senior Developer
Raylib library
- Advice for managing a group of beginner C programmers, myself included
-
What are some good projects in C for an experienced dev?
Here is a cool C project you could learn from: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib Its an open source game lib.
- Raylib v5.0
-
raylib 5.0 is coming November 18, 2023?
Did I miss something or is raylib 5 really coming next saturday? https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/commit/737cd0be7fb009bf837a00847128b00051c5f096
-
Not only Unity...
RayLib (ZLIBL/C/Lua) https://github.com/raysan5/raylib
What are some alternatives?
When comparing microui and raylib you can also consider the following projects:
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
sokol - minimal cross-platform standalone C headers
SDL2 - SDL2 bindings to perl
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
pixeltoaster - PixelToaster is a framebuffer library for C++
minifb - MiniFB is a small cross platform library to create a frame buffer that you can draw pixels in
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
nuklear
SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer