model-view-projection VS microui

> Copilot is a horrible crutch. I will never use it, because I know how to read the documentation/source and write my own code.

I think it depends on how you use it. I never let Copilot make design decisions, because it kind of sucks at that, and it that carries a lot of risk of wasting more time than it saves in the long run.

But there are some tasks that I think it's well suited for. In a recent commit[1] to one of my side projects, I swapped out one graphics library for another, which involved replacing a lot of library calls and would have been very tedious to write by hand. I turned Copilot on for this, and after I did a couple substitutions by hand it was able to do most of the work and was easily a net positive.

For my own usage, I keep copilot off in my text editors, and opt to flip it on with a keybinding if and when I have a tedious task that I think it would be good for.

[1] https://github.com/jpe90/model-view-projection/commit/1ed4fb...

I used Nuklear for a little demo project I put together to wrap my head around matrix transforms in graphics programming. It's very easy to use and pleasant to work with!

https://github.com/jpe90/model-view-projection

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

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.

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".

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

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

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.