[ANN] Monomer, a GUI library for Haskell

1. monomer

   1 16 660 0.0 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

2. SaaSHub

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3. LambdaHack

   2 8 659 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).

4. gi-gtk-declarative

   3 5 292 2.7 Haskell

   Declarative GTK+ programming in Haskell

   

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

5. static-haskell-nix

   4 7 403 7.4 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

6. nanovg

   5 19 5,643 1.9 C

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

   

   What is your take on the underlying library NanoVG stating

7. MetalNanoVG

   6 1 230 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)

8. Skia

   7 64 10,740 9.9 C++

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

   

   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).

9. imgui

   8 389 73,701 9.8 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.

10. egui

    9 238 29,309 9.6 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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