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

71 mentions on Hacker News by 51 people: 6 stories, 65 comments · first 2016-05-20 · latest 2026-03-01

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  1. Golang led me to this popular lightweight C library: https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by j_s · 2017-11-03 · in Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NET core and ASP.NET core
  2. libui looks amazing but it's not quite ready yet https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by lukechilds · 2017-07-26 · in “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
  3. …simpler ones. [0] https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets [1] https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear [2] https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by jakobdabo · 2017-03-24 · in Cross-platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck, 2016 Edition
  4. A project I've been keeping my eye on is libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ), it's basically a thin wrapper around the native libraries (very SWT like) that can be used in a number of languages.
    comment by flukus · 2017-03-23 · in VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
  5. > GTK is a painfull to install. Also no longer cross platform. LibUI ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ) looks promising but I don't think the rust bindings are being worked on.
    comment by flukus · 2017-02-07 · in Rust's 2017 Roadmap
  6. A project you might be interested in is libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ). I can't comment on it because I haven't used it and it's still quite young but it looks promising, it's on my radar to learn soon. Native widgets and…
    comment by flukus · 2017-01-21 · in Removing Python 2.x support from Django for version 2.0
  7. …really wouldn't be that big a deal. At the moment I'm somewhat hopefully the libui project ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ) will be successful though. It's learned the lessons from previous attempts.
    comment by flukus · 2017-01-18 · in RethinkDB Postmortem
  8. libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ) seems promising.
    comment by macco · 2016-10-06 · in Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond
  9. Qt is not bad. I got interested in libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ), but it stalled a bit, after a couple of months of very promising activity.
    comment by aoloe · 2016-10-06 · in Typora – A cross platform markdown editor
  10. …their own weird languages and ui designer IDEs. At the moment I'm crossing my fingers that libui https://github.com/andlabs/libui/ won't mess up. But for now it's quite incomplete.
    comment by daurnimator · 2016-09-26 · in LXQt 0.11 Released
  11. …libui[1], it is exactlly the same philosophy [0] http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ [1] https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by mushiake · 2016-08-28 · in Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
  12. "The best" is subjective. I have played around with libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui ), which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. A nice thing about it is that it is written in C, and therefore has bindings with several programming…
    comment by edko · 2016-08-28 · in Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
  13. Depends on how complex your UI needs to be, but have you considered libui? https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by malux85 · 2016-07-30 · in Ask HN: Which parts of C++ do I need to learn in order to use Qt?
  14. Have you thought about integrating with https://github.com/andlabs/libui edit: What about maybe as an optional backend? That way one could develop on a desktop easier.
    comment by biokoda · 2016-06-30 · in Show HN: libphone – Cross-platform library supports iOS/Android development in C
  15. …it's in alpha stage, true, but so what - wait until it's stable, and then start building? [0]: https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by nikolay · 2016-06-17 · in Yakyak: Electron Chat Client for Google Hangouts
  16. …libui [1], developers, you have no excuses! [0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/libui-node [1]: https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by nikolay · 2016-06-17 · in Yakyak: Electron Chat Client for Google Hangouts
  17. …classes. libui has C api, but it would be easy to write a nice c++11 wrapper around it. [1] https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by gulpahum · 2016-06-16 · in Qt 5.7 released
  18. …its python 3 bindings are still being built. Personally, I'm keeping my eye open on libui ( https://github.com/andlabs/libui/ ) as it is already possible to do some basic things with it. However, it is pretty much in alpha state and I'm…
    comment by jventura · 2016-06-08 · in Announcing the Qt Automotive Suite
  19. …said that scrolling a certain web page triggered no less than something like 67 animations. [1] https://github.com/andlabs/libui
    comment by sdegutis · 2016-05-24 · in Pepperoni – A framework to build apps faster, powered by React Native
  20. https://github.com/andlabs/libui/issues/24
    comment by jventura · 2016-05-20 · in Libui: GUI library in C
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    Libui: GUI library in C
    story by avitex · 2016-05-20 · 182 comments