Not-gtk GUI Libs/frameworks for plain C

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/C_Programming

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  1. nuklear

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

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. Gtk4-tutorial

    GTK 4 tutorial for beginners

    have you tried this? https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial also https://github.com/frang75/nappgui is very interesting and promising.

  4. nappgui

    Cross-Platform C SDK (precompiled)

    have you tried this? https://github.com/ToshioCP/Gtk4-tutorial also https://github.com/frang75/nappgui is very interesting and promising.

  5. libui

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

    https://github.com/andlabs/libui is very nice, but unfortunately dead, if it serves your purpose consider using it, this is a fork under development https://github.com/libui-ng/libui-ng

  6. libui-ng

    libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation"

    https://github.com/andlabs/libui is very nice, but unfortunately dead, if it serves your purpose consider using it, this is a fork under development https://github.com/libui-ng/libui-ng

  7. raygui

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

    I don't know about this one, but seems alright https://github.com/raysan5/raygui

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