[ANN] Monomer, a GUI library for Haskell

• monomer

  0 557 5.7 Haskell

  An easy to use, cross platform, GUI library for writing Haskell applications.

  I don't have any comments about the library itself, but I wanted to say that I very much appreciate that you took the time to write this out: https://github.com/fjvallarino/monomer/blob/main/docs/design-decisions.md

• LambdaHack

  0 611 6.5 Haskell

  Haskell game engine library for roguelike dungeon crawlers; please offer feedback, e.g., after trying out the sample game with the web frontend at

  

  I've recently tried that and gave up (https://github.com/LambdaHack/LambdaHack/issues/248). Perhaps it's possible to statically link SDL2, but I learnt it's impossible to statically link the OpenGL and X11 libraries, so you end up with a partially statically linked binary (I didn't manage to obtain even that).

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• gi-gtk-declarative

  0 283 2.7 Haskell

  Declarative GTK+ programming in Haskell

  What are the main differences to and advantages over gi-gtk-declarative?

• static-haskell-nix

  0 379 5.2 Nix

  easily build most Haskell programs into fully static Linux executables

  In static-haskell-nix there is currently this PR to enable support for that: https://github.com/nh2/static-haskell-nix/pull/108

• nanovg

  3 4,994 1.7 C

  Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.

  What is your take on the underlying library NanoVG stating

• MetalNanoVG

  0 210 0.0 C

  The Metal port of NanoVG.

  

  It's not ideal, but the feature set used by Monomer has been stable for quite a while. It's also a kind of small library, which makes porting it to other backends feasible (a version for Metal, which I have not tested, can be found here)

• Skia

  7 8,597 9.7 C++

  Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.

  

  I took a look at using Skia, but the C bindings are marked as not stable and it does not look like an easy to distribute library (plus compiling it takes a long time).

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• imgui

  41 55,381 9.7 C++

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

  The other option that looks really interesting is using ImGui's ImDrawList, but I haven't validated if something Monomer uses is missing. The main advantage is it supports quite a few backends (Vulkan included), plus it also is a small library.

• egui

  26 19,474 9.7 Rust

  egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

  Some competition from the rusties, with interesting discussion of immediate vs retained mode: https://github.com/emilk/egui

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