vgtk VS libui

Compare vgtk vs libui and see what are their differences.

vgtk

A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and Gtk-rs (by bodil)

libui

Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports. (by andlabs)
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vgtk libui
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1,038 10,590
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0.0 0.0
about 2 years ago over 1 year ago
Rust C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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vgtk

Posts with mentions or reviews of vgtk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-14.
  • Rust: State of GUI, December 2022 – KAS blog
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2022
    A pretty fun Rust GUI experienc is vgtk[0], which is doing a bunch of macro magic to give a "we're coding in React" vibe to GTK+. I don't really have a specific thing I want to code in a native GUI at the moment but if I did I think this would be the most tempting for me.

    [0]: https://github.com/bodil/vgtk/

  • Code bloat has become astronomical
    2 projects | /r/programming | 26 Sep 2022
    a stateful GUI markup language is react. it is not yet the case that react-like code works for desktop, though there are cool examples like vgtk https://github.com/bodil/vgtk
  • A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and GTK-rs
    2 projects | /r/programming | 6 Jun 2022
    from what i gather from https://github.com/bodil/vgtk/issues/78, you're better off using realm
    2 projects | /r/programming | 6 Jun 2022
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2022
    I'm always curious to see these projects, because I've been experimenting with a React renderer for the GJS bindings for a while. It's frustrating because GTK "feels like" it's so close to being able to support a vdom/declarative paradigm, but the devil is in the details.

    The simple use-cases like "Window > Box > Label" are easy to get going. The more complex widgets like Stack/Grid/TreeView ... aren't.

    This project seems to have the same issue: https://github.com/bodil/vgtk/issues/40

    This is made more difficult now GTK4 has removed the Container base class, so there's no longer a unified interface for adding children (although it had caveats in the first place).

    I totally get the GTK view that (presumably) specific widgets are more intuitive with specific add/remove APIs (like the grid - one doesn't really "appendChild" to a grid).

    It just feels like: if there was a consistent container API comparable to the web's appendChild approach, a vdom/declarative approach would require only a very light wrapper. Without it, I keep coming back to the idea of implementing wrapper widgets that expose that consistent API instead. And that's just not something I want to maintain - effectively duplicating each GTK widget for the purpose of making it fit into a tree model.

    It's also a problem of trying to wrap richer functionality (pack_start and pack_end) into a simpler set (append only) of course.

    So I don't know exactly what my point is :) Perhaps cautioning the reader that the simplicity of the approach comes with a catch.

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2022
  • Hacker News top posts: May 28, 2022
    5 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 28 May 2022
    A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and GTK-rs\ (23 comments)
  • Newbie here. Just finished reading the book. What now?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 12 Jan 2022
    Build your own To-do List Application in Rust: https://bodil.lol/vgtk/
  • Rust GUI: Introduction, a.k.a. the state of Rust GUI libraries (As of January 2021)
    12 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2021
    VGTK

libui

Posts with mentions or reviews of libui. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vgtk and libui you can also consider the following projects:

imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

nana - a modern C++ GUI library

GTK+ - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk

ncurses - snapshots of ncurses - see http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html (no pull requests are accepted)

NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL

FLTK - FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

Duilib

webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).

Yue - A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps