duanebester/gooey
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Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU-rendered applications on macOS/Metal, WebAssembly/WebGPU, and Wayland/Vulkan
5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2026-06-03 · latest 2026-06-03
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…likely, given the CLAUDE.md in the repo). Also looks like a bit of introspection has happened ... https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/docs/architec... I wonder if this is just what we get now: low quality code, expressed…
comment by henry_bone · 2026-06-03 · in Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig -
It was made with AI though: https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/CLAUDE.md That said, it fills a legit hole in the ecosystem and the author seems to be hands-on with the technical direction.
comment by porphyra · 2026-06-03 · in Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig -
Well, the big CLAUDE.md there is a giveaway that it was AI generated: https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/CLAUDE.md But still, the project solves a legit pain point. And the author seems pretty hands-on with steering the…
comment by porphyra · 2026-06-03 · in Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig -
I take it back. This project is pure slop https://github.com/duanebester/gooey/blob/main/docs/architec...
comment by WD-42 · 2026-06-03 · in Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig