User interface software

2021-09-12 — 2025-01-02

computers are awful

photon choreography

Wherein a compendium of minimal UI libraries is presented, and immediate-mode browser and Electron bindings and an emphasis on WebAssembly first-class support for cross-platform embedded graphics are noted.

Placeholder for bookmarking minimalistic UI things I occasionally think I might need

cannerycoders/imgui-njs: Immediate Mode GUI for browser and electron environments.
LVGL is a stripped-down graphics/UI library
- LVGL - Light and Versatile Embedded Graphics Library
- Features - See what LVGL can do for you | LVGL
Sokol
A minimal cross-platform application-wrapper library:
- unified application entry
- single window or canvas for 3D rendering
- 3D context initialization
- event-based keyboard, mouse and touch input
- supported platforms: Win32, MacOS, Linux (X11), iOS, WASM, Android, UWP
- supported 3D-APIs: GL3.3 (GLX/WGL), Metal, D3D11, GLES3/WebGL2
Notably

WebAssembly is a ‘first-class citizen.’ One important motivation for the Sokol headers is to provide a collection of cross-platform APIs with a minimal footprint on the web platform while still being useful.

The core headers are standalone and can be used independently from each other.

A blog post with more background info: A Tour of sokol_gfx.h