Minimal non-OO-based Gui Toolkit

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~I kind of want some way to install LSP's without relying on meson~

Brain dump for a mvp gui toolkit

[janvhs]

Use a UI toolkit which doesn't use Oo.

There is Iced, Imgui, Fyne, Raylib, Revery UI

[janvhs]

Maybe for an MVP but before using it, look at this https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/gui/2022/07/15/next-dozen-guis.html

Source: https://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/windowtoolkits/

The best known options:

• GLFW
• Vulkan and MoltenVK
• SDL
• Raylib

Other options:

• Sfml
• Allegro

[janvhs]

Is WxWidgets classed based?

[janvhs]

https://hackmd.io/@dspfac/BklHLeiTi

[janvhs]

WackyWidgets (eww)

[janvhs]

https://github.com/cycfi/elements

[janvhs]

JUCE is another popular toolkit

So is Jetpack Compose

[janvhs]

The ELM Architecture looks really great

[janvhs]

https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui And EFL from enlightenment

[janvhs]

https://www.cycfi.com/2019/07/photon-micro-gui/

[janvhs]

https://github.com/nuxui/nuxui

[janvhs]

https://github.com/google/skia

[janvhs]

Layouting:

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy

Meta their yoga

[janvhs]

One of the best approaches would be to implement the core in modern C, Embedded Swift or Rust with C bindings.

The Rust ecosystem provides a lot of high quality GUI related crates and projects like Zed's gpui, druid and iced.

OCaml has Revery and Brisk, which look very interesting.

Go has fyne and Haskell has https://github.com/fjvallarino/monomer

I would love to have the Elm architecture or FRP style like Leptos, Vue, Solid.js, SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose

[janvhs]

Goals:

• ~Compile with a C compiler~
• Provide good C bindings and a plk-config file
• Have the main loop provided by the programming language for easy integration or use a react natove approach
• Custom styles
• Dynamic user defined styling

[janvhs]

WebGPU native renderers

https://github.com/google/dawn Rust wgpu

Spec and implementation list https://github.com/webgpu-native/webgpu-headers?tab=readme-ov-file

[janvhs]

Final ones to consider:

• GPUI (Zed)
• Slint
• GTK
• Xilem
• Das von Lapce
• Bouge
• Monomer
• Ice