What would you say is a good GUI library for a beginner (someone who's never dabbled in GUI programming before, but has several years of experience with C++)?

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  • imgui

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

  • TerraGen3D

    Discontinued 3D Procedural Terrain Generation and Texturing Tool in OpenGL/C++ [Moved to: https://github.com/Jaysmito101/TerraForge3D]

    Dear imgui is one of the easiest libriries out there. For my part i learned it in just 1 2 weeks and here is what i made with it https://github.com/Jaysmito101/TerraGen3D and also i am not very experienced at all. Imgui is not diffucult according to me.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • nuklear

    A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library (by Immediate-Mode-UI)

    https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear If you also want texture and skinning Support

  • ImFrame

    dear imgui + glfw framework

    To help with this, I made a framework that makes it much easier to use like a more traditional application framework, providing a few handy features you'd expect, like native file dialogs, window position save/restore, native macOS windows, platform-appropriate settings storage, image loading, a selection of fonts, etc.

  • copperspice

    Set of cross platform C++ libraries (Core, Gui, Network, Multimedia, SQL, Vulkan, etc)

    www.copperspice.com

  • xtd

    Free open-source modern C++17 / C++20 framework to create console, GUI (forms like WinForms) and unit test applications and libraries on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and Linux.

    xtd is a free open-source modern C++17 / C++20 framework to create console, forms (GUI like WinForms) and unit test applications on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS and Linux.

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