Are there any low-level library options for creating desktop apps?

• wxWidgets

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  Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

  

  There are a lot of options and they're not that hard to find... Qt, wxWidgets, FLTK, IUP come immediately to mind.

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• FLTK

  18 1,624 9.8 C++

  FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development

  

  There are a lot of options and they're not that hard to find... Qt, wxWidgets, FLTK, IUP come immediately to mind.

• ComputeSharp

  39 2,695 9.7 C#

  A .NET library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12, D2D1, and dynamically generated HLSL compute and pixel shaders, with the goal of making GPU computing easy to use for all .NET developers! 🚀

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• ImGui.NET

  17 1,841 6.7 C#

  An ImGui wrapper for .NET.

  

  The only thing I could really think of is something like ImGui for C# (https://github.com/mellinoe/ImGui.NET) but I've never used it. It's going to give you some simple wrappers around ImGui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) but even this is going to lock you into the UI framework -- you can't just "draw a rectangle" per se and use it as a "control." Do note however this is an "immediate mode" GUI which is different from how most general desktop windowing systems work in "retained mode" (which are typically event driven, which saves on computing power to not draw the same stuff over and over).

• imgui

  364 59,254 9.8 C++

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

  The only thing I could really think of is something like ImGui for C# (https://github.com/mellinoe/ImGui.NET) but I've never used it. It's going to give you some simple wrappers around ImGui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) but even this is going to lock you into the UI framework -- you can't just "draw a rectangle" per se and use it as a "control." Do note however this is an "immediate mode" GUI which is different from how most general desktop windowing systems work in "retained mode" (which are typically event driven, which saves on computing power to not draw the same stuff over and over).

• WinApi

  4 819 0.0 C#

  A simple, direct, ultra-thin CLR library for high-performance Win32 Native Interop

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