owlkettle VS Neel

Compare owlkettle vs Neel and see what are their differences.

Neel

A Nim library for making Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps, with full access to Nim capabilities. (by Niminem)
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owlkettle Neel
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8.5 5.3
15 days ago 5 months ago
Nim Nim
MIT License MIT License
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owlkettle

Posts with mentions or reviews of owlkettle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024
    This is really cool! I love the JSX-like approach to UI and it's a shame it's not so common on desktop. https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle is the only thing I find comparable.
  • Owlkettle – declarative GUI framework for Nim
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024
  • Nim v2.0 Released
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    Ones that have not been mentioned so far:

    nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm

    npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal PEG notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg

    futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark

    nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

    questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable

    ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel

    cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting to continuation passing style: https://github.com/nim-works/cps

    chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos

    zero-functional fixes some inefficiencies when chaining list operations: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional

    owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle

    A longer list can be found at https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim.

  • Simple Gamepad Support
    7 projects | /r/nim | 10 May 2023
    Although for a GUI (if I even made one, rather than just a fixed/hardcoded setup) I'd probably use Owlkettle(though there are some things I don't like about it, see closed issue 16).
  • Forte! A new way of writing Gtk apps for GNOME.
    3 projects | /r/gnome | 16 Jan 2023
    A similar library in nim is https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle
  • How should one start a GUI library
    1 project | /r/nim | 10 Dec 2022
    There's also Owlkettle that seems a bit easier/cleaner IMO, though when I tried it I had some issues (clunky container workflow, wanting better scaling) and would prefer something similar using Qt.
  • Show HN: Owlkettle – A Declarative user interface framework based on GTK 4
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 15 Jul 2022
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2022

Neel

Posts with mentions or reviews of Neel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-07.
  • Is Nim right for me?
    6 projects | /r/nim | 7 Mar 2022
    I made the Nim equivalent to Python's Eel library called Neel. There are other GUI libraries out there but this is about as simple as it gets. It's only dependency is having chrome installed on your machine. Write your frontend in javascript (or just use Nim and compile to javascript) and backend in Nim. The executables are fast and extremely tiny. It'll embed your assets into the binary too so no dependency/linking BS. If you're on Mac, you can package it into an App too rather than just the executable. See the repo for more details.

What are some alternatives?

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futhark - Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim

Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps

pixie - Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim.

nim-dnsprotocol - Domain Name System (DNS) protocol for Nim programming language