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High performance UI layout library in C.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2024-08-24 · latest 2026-08-19

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  1. …should admit it's taken a lot of it's inspiration from Clay, a C layout immediate mode UI library: https://github.com/nicbarker/clay/</strike> EDIT: Was wrong, see reply to this comment, need my coffee...still not a good excuse
    comment by righthand · 2026-08-19 · in Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library
  2. …and I have been a fan since. Once you get past the “huh, weird” stage it has a lot of benefits! 1: https://github.com/nicbarker/clay
    comment by legobmw99 · 2025-07-23 · in Show HN: Header-only GIF decoder in pure C – no malloc, easy to use
  3. I’m guessing it’s this: https://github.com/nicbarker/clay
    comment by audunw · 2025-06-13 · in GUI: A UI frame work for the V language based on the rendering algorithm of Clay
  4. Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library. https://github.com/nicbarker/clay
    comment by irq-1 · 2025-03-03 · in How Clay's UI Layout Algorithm Works [video]
  5. It's in the repo; landing pages are usually for generating interest. https://github.com/nicbarker/clay
    comment by fredrikholm · 2024-12-20 · in Clay – UI Layout Library
  6. …CLAY_STRING("Compile to 15kb .wasm"), CLAY_STRING("/clay/images/check_1.png")); } } } } Source: https://github.com/nicbarker/clay/blob/35d72e5fba6872be48d15...
    comment by ahmedfromtunis · 2024-12-19 · in Clay – UI Layout Library