In search of a simple GUI library for C/C++

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  • 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 (by Immediate-Mode-UI)

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  • libui

    Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.

  • just now I was browsing libui.

  • nuklear

  • raygui

    A simple and easy-to-use immediate-mode gui library

  • You can take a look to raygui: https://github.com/raysan5/raygui It's plain C, single-file header-only, portable, multiplatform, supports styling and simple icons. Actually, I created and published several tools using it.

  • JUCE

    JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.

  • NanoGUI

    Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL

  • I have only played with this briefly, but after the initial setup NanoGUI seemed pretty intuitive https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui

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