owlkettle VS NiGui

Compare owlkettle vs NiGui and see what are their differences.

NiGui

Cross-platform desktop GUI toolkit written in Nim (by simonkrauter)
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owlkettle NiGui
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360 703
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8.5 5.4
14 days ago about 2 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

NiGui

Posts with mentions or reviews of NiGui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-19.

What are some alternatives?

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

nimforum - Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim

awesome-nim - A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries, software and resources.