dvui

Immediate Zig GUI for Apps and Games (by david-vanderson)

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  • Fizzy: Desktop app built almost in Zig (DVUI)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2026
    I think DVUI [1] is zig's most mature UI framework, and I have been enjoying using it for a while.

    It's just one project that's pushing zig's desktop app dev story. They recently integrated another open source project velopack [2] and while that part isn't in zig (everything else is), this project has almost everything I'd want from a non-toy electron application. Autoupdating, cross-platform, native macOS context and topbar menus, etc.

    1: https://github.com/david-vanderson/dvui

    2: https://github.com/velopack/velopack

  • Why is Zig so Cool?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2025
    Is dvui something you want to see? Although the use of backends are still c based, the core part of the gui seems written fully in zig rather than a binding from a c library.

    https://github.com/david-vanderson/dvui

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david-vanderson/dvui is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of dvui is Zig.


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